Sir Winston Churchill’s Funeral Train Was Hauled By ‘Battle of Britain’ Class Steam Locomotive No. 34051 Winston Churchill.

Churchill is one of the few people to have a funeral train pulled by a locomotive named for the deceased.

A4 Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the U.S. when Ike’s funeral train ran, but it was not in operable condition.’ Thank YOU, as ever, Mike.

Sir Winston Churchill’s funeral train passing Clapham Junction (London).

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Wikipedia story on the funeral and the funeral train
(from where the above picture came from).
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