1965

TQ2775 : Sir Winston Churchill's Funeral Train passing Clapham Junction

taken 59 years ago, near to Battersea, Wandsworth, England

Sir Winston Churchill's Funeral Train passing Clapham Junction
Sir Winston Churchill's Funeral Train passing Clapham Junction
View northward, from the Waterloo end of the ex-LSW Waterloo - Woking and the West main line platforms, over to the Windsor Lines at Clapham Junction. The train ran from Waterloo to Hanborough via Reading South and Oxford, hauled by SR Bulleid Light Pacific No. 34051 'Winston Churchill'. This locomotive was built in 12/46 as No. 21C151 and after withdrawal in 9/65 was saved and preserved in the National Collection at York: for the Funeral it carried a unique disc headcode representing 'V for Victory'. The hearse vehicle of the seven-coach Pullman train conveyed the coffin - Sir Winston having died on 24/1/65 then lain in state. [Mid-winter weather precluded my obtaining a good photograph].

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TQ2775, 551 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ben Brooksbank   (more nearby)
Date Taken
30 January 1965   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 1 November, 2011
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 2727 7563 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:27.9203N 0:10.1544W
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OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 2727 7563
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