Date: 15/09/2014

The carriage which carried Sir Winston Churchill's coffin to his final resting place has arrived in County Durham for restoration. Southern Railway luggage van No 2464 will be at Locomotion, the National Railway Museum, in Shildon until January. The carriage transported Churchill's coffin from London to Oxfordshire in 1965. It is being loaned to the museum by Swanage Railway Collection. The museum's team will restore the carriage before moving it to the National Railway Museum in York as part of an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the former Prime Minister's state funeral. [From Mark Bartlett]

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Churchill's funeral car restoration

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The carriage which carried Sir Winston Churchill's coffin to his funeral arrives at Locomotion, the National Railway Museum, in Shildon for restoration.

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