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HANDOVER OF CHURCHILL'S FUNERAL VAN AT SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS - 3rd October 2007
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Update from Steve Doughty - 4th October 2007
Project Leader and Deputy Chairman, Swanage Railway Trust.
Photographs are copyright Andrew P.M. Wright,Official photographer & press officer, Swanage Railway, unless otherwise noted.
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Please scroll down the page to see the full set of 150 photos of the handover at Southampton Docks, plus details of how to easily contribute to this project.

Handover at Southampton Docks 24th September 2007. Photo copyright Andrew P.M. Wright
The body of Sir Winston Churchill's funeral van - Southern Railway van S2464S - is lowered carefully onto its bogies on the low loader at Southampton Docks on Wednesday 3rd October 2007.

Steve Doughty writes:

After an 8000 mile voyage from California via the Panama Canal, S2464S or the Churchill car (as we have learned to call it when talking to our US cousins) arrived at Southampton on the 'Tamerlane' on Monday 24th September and became a van once more.

To see the full set of 150 photos from Andrew P.M. Wright of the handover at Southampton Docks, please scroll to the bottom of the page. Please click here for the first page of the report where you can find details of how to easily contribute to the restoration of van S2464S.

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To see the full set of 150 photos of the handover at Southampton Docks, please follow these links.
- To visit the first page of photos please click here.
- To visit the second page of photos please click here.
- To visit the third page of photos please click here.
- To visit the fifth page of photos please click here.

All photographs are copyright Andrew P.M. Wright unless otherwise acknowledged.
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