As the carriage left New Palace Yard, a single gun fired in St James's Park; a muffled boom echoed through the hushed streets and along Whitehall all was still but for the measured, deliberate crunch of boots against the road, a steely jingle of harness, and the sad music of the march.
Although it was the only rational thing to do — he said later that he wept when the last Bourbon king's carriage left Versailles, but what was finished was finished — his relatives in the aristocracy despised him for it, and, feeling miserable and confused, he looked for some way out of Paris.
On 2 March 1882, Roderick Maclean, a disgruntled poet apparently offended by Victoria's refusal to accept one of his poems, shot at the Queen as her carriage left Windsor railway station.
Three carriages will leave New Palace Yard and process up Whitehall, to Trafalgar Square, through Admiralty Arch and down the Mall, through the Centre Gates at Buckingham Palace.
Six passengers and one pedestrian are killed as a carriage leaves the ground and crashes along the platform into the station building.
Romeo, my Alfa Romeo, I grieve as I do drive thee 'round the city block, perchance to see another carriage leave that I may seize the place to park and lock thee.
But surgeons had to remove her legs above the knee after she was trapped in the wreckage of the tube carriage, leaving her with injuries which require her to use 280% more energy than a normal person to take a single step.
On 14 November 1949, a rake of carriages was left foul of an adjacent line at station, Hampshire.
An empty carriage was left on the track while another was sent out around the 14 loops at speeds of 50mph in some places.
