hips don't lie: Waiting for Royal baby: Prince Charles heads to Yorkshire for two-day tour as he awaits news of first grandchild

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Waiting for Royal baby: Prince Charles heads to Yorkshire for two-day tour as he awaits news of first grandchild

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Travelmail Reporter

PUBLISHED:

06:37 EST, 22 July 2013

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UPDATED:

07:10 EST, 22 July 2013

Prince Charles paid a visit to York’s National Railway Museum (NRM) as he eagerly awaits news from London about the birth of his first grandchild.

His Royal Highness enjoyed a private tour of the ‘Mallard 75’ exhibition this morning, along with the museum’s other exhibits, which include Royal Train carriages used by Queen Victoria.

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Full steam ahead: The Prince of Wales arrives at the National Railway Museum in York

Charles is the patron of celebrations that are ongoing to mark the 75th anniversary of the day the Mallard broke the world record.

The train became the world’s fastest steam locomotive when it reached a speed of 126mph on the East Coast Main Line in July 1938.

The Prince climbed aboard the Doncaster-built Mallard, which is a permanent exhibit at the NRM, and also enjoyed a tour of the museum’s collection of royal carriages.

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On track: The Prince visited York to mark the 75th anniversary of the Mallard locomotive

When asked for an update on his daughter-in-law’s condition, he replied: ‘No news yet.’

The museum’s collection includes Queen Victoria’s

favourite carriage, King Edward’s saloon and Queen Elizabeth’s saloon,

used by the Royal family during the Second World War.

Charles will attend a reception for Prince’s Trust supporters at Harewood House, near Leeds, later today.

The visit is the first event of a

two-day tour of Yorkshire by the Prince, who will be joined by the

Duchess of Cornwall tomorrow.

Prince Charles is a keen rail

enthusiast and earlier this year took a trip on the London Underground

to celebrate 150 years of the Tube.

He also test drove a London Underground train at Bombardier’s train building factory in Derby in February.

The

Mallard exhibition, which opened on 3 July, attracted a record-breaking 12,000 visitors on

Saturday, with nearly 45,000 visitors attending in the first five days.

The iconic train has been reunited with two of its sister locomotives, the Dominion of Canada and the Dwight D. Eisenhower at the exhibition.

In a scene not witnessed since the Thirties, the three trains now sit beside each other restored to their former glory.

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Star attraction: The Mallard on display at the National Railway Museum

They are three of six surviving Sir Nigel Gresley-designed A4 locomotives that have been brought together at the museum.

The

Dominion has been shipped from Canada and repainted in the same iconic

period garter blue livery as the Mallard, while the Eisenhower has been

brought back from the U.S. and given a fresh coat of deep green paint.

Anthony

Coulls, Senior Curator of Railway Vehicles, said: “A visit by our

patron, HRH, The Prince of Wales is truly the icing on the cake!

Bringing the collection to the widest possible audience is what it’s all

about.”