Winston Churchill funeral carriage to be restored

[John Ashworth]

Train carriage that took Sir Winston Churchill's body from his funeral is to be restored to mark 50th anniversary of his death

- Carriage took former PM's body from State Funeral at St. Paul's Cathedral to final resting place in Oxfordshire in 1965
- But the carriage had humble beginnings, originally used just to carry basic goods such as vegetables and newspapers
- After 40 years in the US the carriage returned to the UK in 2007 and is now at the National Railway Museum in York
- Curator leading restoration work says carriage is of huge value 'because of part it played in Churchill's last journey'...