TOP TRAIN - Ferrovie in miniatura

Limited Edition - 1:87 - precision scale

The basic composition of Italian Royal Train in 1910 was the following:

Steam Locomotive Gr. 680

Coach n. 1 with trolley

of the Queen Margherita of Italy : room, bed rooms bed with toilet, three compartments with toilets for the dames.

Coach n.2 with trolley

of S.M. the Queen of Italy : room, bedroom with toilet, four compartments and a toilets for the dignitaries.

Coach n.3 with three axles

of the prince of Naples : room, bed room with toilet, compartment and retreat for the dignitaries.

Coach n.4 with trolley

a dinning room for sixteen people, smoker parlor and two compartments and toilet for the succession.

Coach n.10 with trolley

kitchen and 4 compartments with toilet for the officers of escort.

Wagon n.12 with three axles

dispensation and compartment for the personnel of kitchen.

Coach n.14 with trolley

mobile station of position of the accumulators for the electric plant illumination.

Wagons n.21 and 22 with two axles

luggage van and compartments for the railway personnel of escort.

In 1889, the Adriatic Net ordered to the Nürnberg railway shop (M.A.N.), KLETT & Co., the Royal Train projected by the Ing. E. Riva of the Southerners Railway with center in Florence.

This convoy at the service of the King Umberto I° of Savoia and subsequently of King Vittorio Emanuele III°, represented the maximum luxury and the railway comfort.

Wagon n.22
luggage van

Wagon n.12
dispensation and compartment for the personnel of kitchen

Coach n.10
with trolley - constituted by kitchen and 4 compartments

Coach n.4
of King Vittorio Emanuele III

The original coachs had chassis and boxes in wood and they was painted in blue dark color. In 1901 to suit to the demands of the new King Vittorio Emanuele III°, and to subsequently improve its comfort, new chassis were constituted in steel and on the trolley it was increased the pich. On some coachs, the original American trolley was replaced with the "Fox" type, that was the most modern one of the Adriatic Railway.

A luggage van with three axles was added and it had the functions of dispensation and lodging for the kitchen personnel , destining the two wagons with two axles for the transport of the baggages for the dignitaries of court that accompanied the sovereigns. In 1902 a coach was built by the Social Shops in Florence. This carriage had the function of mobile station with accumulators with horizontal boiler, steam pump and dynamo.

Until the beginning of the first world war, the Savoia Royal Convoy was the first mean of transport of the Royal House of Italy both in country and abroad; the trips to Germany were innumerable . In the last one, to Vienna, at the court of the Emperor of Austria, Francis Giuseppe, exhausted the official part, the Sovereigns privately crossed the whole Europe with a trip lasted quite a lot weeks.

Coach n.4
of King of Italy Vittorio Emanuele III. Dinning room and smoker parlor

Coach n.2
of S.M. Queen Margherita of Italy

Coach n.1
of S.M. Queen of Italy

After the end of the war, the convoy assiduously came busy for the transfers during the visits in the cities of the Northeast that were annexed to the Kingdom of Italy.

With the entry of the Royal FIAT Train (1929), this original Royal Convoy lost the exclusive and prestigious role. It was reduced in the basic composition and it was employed as Royal Train on the Sardinian Railway, where some coachs survived up to the fifties.

In the 1910 - 1918, period of the Top-Train model reproduction, the Royal Train was normally hauled by a couple of steam locomotives derived from the F.S. Group 680, one of these like principal (holder) and one that, always turned on, it acted as reserve.

Traction of Royal Convoy: a couple of Steam Locomotive Gr. 680, one holder and one for reserve.

Coach n.3
of S.A.R. Prince of Naple.

Coach n.21
luggage van and compartments

Coach n.14
mobile station

The Italy Royal Convoy will be realized by Top-Train in brass sheet and brass micro-fusion, in the rigorous respect of the original sketches .The coachs will be equipped with really springy trolley and springy axles.

The inside furnishing, reproduced in every his component , will complete these exclusive carriages. The roof of coach can be opened so it’s possible to appreciate every single detail.