Churchill funeral train

[Agrippa]

One of Hornby's OO products is Sir Winston Churchill's funeral train.Seems a bit of an
extravagance as you could only run it once..... .

[d-a-n]

In the same vein, maybe Farish should do a set consisting of 46009, three mk1s and a nuclear flask wagon...

[crewearpley40]

note the article in the January railway modeller

[Newportnobby]

One of Hornby's OO products is Sir Winston Churchill's funeral train.Seems a bit of an
extravagance as you could only run it once..... .

Unless of course it's repeated on the 'Yesterday' channel

[Mr Sprue]

God that really makes me feel kinda old,  as I can still remember as a youngster actually watching that all unfold on TV back in the sixties  ...... Black and white of course!

Wasn't it Waterloo station the train departed from?

[MalcolmInN]

God that really makes me feel kinda old, 

Thee an'me both
What a strange macabre thing to want to model ?
I mean 00 ?? !

[Agrippa]

 

[Mr Sprue]

God that really makes me feel kinda old, 

Thee an'me both
What a strange macabre thing to want to model ?
I mean 00 ?? !

Hmmm......yes I see what you mean, but then again Churchill was a very big man, so I guess Hornby with this in mind decided it would require a cumbersome gauge for this model! 

[Bealman]

Yeah, I remember watching that on telly. That January RM has some good info, though, and a great picture of the actual train hauled by spam can Sir Winston Churchill.

[Geoff]

Why would you want a funeral train, I know a lot of dead boddies use to get transported on trains but hey come on we have a hobby, I like the way things are "Living"

[MalcolmInN]

In the same vein, maybe Farish should do a set consisting of 46009, three mk1s and a nuclear flask wagon...

!!
gosh that is moving on a year or two !

But reminds me ,  something I was thinking a while ago,
what did they transport nuclear materials in after (dont mention it) the war.
Hands up who remembers superMac's drive for the bomb ?
Who remembers the unholy speed with which the so called nuclear electricity reactors (free electricity ha!) were built, not long after ?Windscale1 was built, to produce plutonium etc for that bomb industry
and it later went up in smoke in a reactor fire that no one mentions before Chernobyl ?

Did steam locos carry nuclear materials in embryo flasks ?

[Agrippa]

what did they transport nuclear materials in after (dont mention it) the war.

They probably used old gunpowder vans repainted with "Weapons grade material on board
not to be loose shunted ".

[Railwaygun]

Why would you want a funeral train, I know a lot of dead boddies use to get transported on trains but hey come on we have a hobby, I like the way things are "Living"

there was the special Funeral line from Waterloo to Brookwood

http://www.tbcs.org.uk/railway.htm

First and Second class bodies ( and mourners)

[MalcolmInN]

They probably used old gunpowder vans repainted with "Weapons grade material on board
not to be loose shunted ".

Sounds reasonable
,
hehee perish the thought,
have you been reading Richard Feynman and others about carrying stuff round on the back seats of their cars and  "tweaking the tail of the dragon" ! ?

[Geoff]

Why would you want a funeral train, I know a lot of dead boddies use to get transported on trains but hey come on we have a hobby, I like the way things are "Living"

there was the special Funeral line from Waterloo to Brookwood

http://www.tbcs.org.uk/railway.htm

First and Second class bodies ( and mourners)

Yep I think I watched one of Michael Portillo,s programme which mentioned the specially built stations, very strange.