Royal Train journey instructions and timings from the Passenger Train Office, 1st Floor, Western Tower, Reading. Royal rail journeys between 1959 and 1964 mostly starting or ending at London Paddington station to or from BR Western Region destinations. Includes instructions, specifications and timings, reasons for visits and the member of the royal family travelling. The briefing documents have been stuck into a credit account book with other documents such as staff notices of Royal Trains.

Significant resources and organisation was required to facilitate travel by the royal household using their own special trains. These records document some of these journeys made between 1959 and 1964 by Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the royal household.