 Queen Victoria was the first British monarch to travel by train, on 13 June 1842 on the Great Western Railway (GWR), which ran the line between London Paddington and Windsor for Windsor Castle.The train transported the Queen from Slough to London Paddington, and was hauled by the locomotive "Phlegethon" driven by Daniel Gooch assisted by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.The Queen used a Royal Saloon which had been constructed by the GWR in 1840.