Date: 31/01/2015

The National Railway Museum in York has refurbished Sir Winston Churchill's funeral train, to mark the 50th anniversary of the event. The locomotive that pulled the funeral train was reunited with the parcels van that carried the coffin, and the carriage that carried the leader's family. BBC Look North's Ian Reeve was there.

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Close-up: Churchill funeral train restored

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The National Railway Museum in York has refurbished Sir Winston Churchill's funeral train, to mark the 50th anniversary of the event.

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