what does " the Queen's Silver Jubilee"here mean?
No one uses the platform now. They have built newer, smarter platforms with rows of shiny luggage trolleys and slot machines that actually work and television screens which show you how late your train is going to be. But platform thirteen is different. The clock has stopped; spiders have spun their webs across the cloakroom door. There's a Left Luggage Office with a notice saying NOT IN USE and inside it is an umbrella covered in mould which a lady left on the 5.25 from Doncaster the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. The chocolate machines are rusty and lopsided and if you were foolish enough to put your money in one it would make a noise like 'Harrumph' and swallow it, and you could wait the rest of your life for the chocolate to come out.does " the Queen's Silver Jubilee"here=the Queen's 25th wedding anniversary?
or =25 anniversary of the coronation2. does "5:25"here= No. 525 train
or does it mean “”the train arrives at 5:25“？

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what does " the Queen's Silver Jubilee"here mean?
No one uses the platform now. They have built newer, smarter platforms with rows of shiny luggage trolleys and slot machines that actually work and television screens which show you how late your train is going to be. But platform thirteen is different. The clock has stopped; spiders have spun their webs across the cloakroom door. There's a Left Luggage Office with a notice saying NOT IN USE and inside it is an umbrella covered in mould which a lady left on the 5.25 from Doncaster the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. The chocolate machines are rusty and lopsided and if you were foolish enough to put your money in one it would make a noise like 'Harrumph' and swallow it, and you could wait the rest of your life for the chocolate to come out.does " the Queen's Silver Jubilee"here=the Queen's  25th wedding anniversary?
or =25 anniversary of the coronation2. does "5:25"here= No. 525 train 
or does it mean “”the train arrives at 5:25“？

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A Silver Jubilee is the 25th anniversary of a monarch's accession ( as opposed to a 25th wedding anniversary, which is a Silver Wedding). The Queen's Silver Jubilee year was 1977.

"The 5.25 from Doncaster" is a particular train service, rather than a particular train. Trains are referred to by the time they depart, so 'the 5.25 from Doncaster' is the scheduled service which leaves that station at 5.25.

The lady left her umbrella on a train which left Doncaster at 5.25, one day back in 1977.

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It's the 25th anniversary of her accession to the throne (1952).

The author could have said 46 years ago but using the Jubilee makes it feel more dated. Plus, it makes the paragraph evergreen because it doesn't matter when it is read in the future the reader can do their own math.

BTW although she succeeded to the throne in 1952, she wasn't crowned until 1953.

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