WINSTON Churchill's granddaughter stepped back in time to visit his funeral train in York yesterday.
Countess Charlotte Peel was ten when she travelled on the locomotive during the war hero prime minister's state funeral on January 30, 1965.
Yesterday, she visited the train at the National Railway Museum for the first time since - alongside her own grandchildren.
The restored loco is now on display in an exhibition at the museum alongside the baggage van which bore Churchill's coffin and the Pullman carriage Lydia which carried his family.
The countess, who lives near Masham, said: "The museum have done a great job bringing the locomotive and wagons back to their sixties condition and seeing them together once more, has brought my memories of the day back to me, the huge crowds watching us go past and the deep sense of sadness that was felt by the whole nation, but the most keenly by my own family.”
Churchill’s Final Journey runs at the museum until May 3.
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