the rest of its career, becoming the shed's 'pet' locomotive, even being noted on the Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway line in June 1959 on the front of a Salisbury– cattle train. During a General Repair at Eastleigh Works in November/December 1954, 34051 had its boiler pressure reduced from . At its next General, six years later, it was fitted with a speedometer and Automatic Warning System apparatus, and tender 3316 had its cosmetic high-sides removed. Funeral train On 24 January 1965, Sir Winston Churchill died. His state funeral on 30 January 1965 saw his coffin process up the River Thames on the before being transferred to Waterloo Station. A special train had been laid on to take the family to , seven miles north-west of Oxford. Handborough was the closest station to the parish church of Bladon where Churchill's body was to be interred. The train comprised: Battle of Britain class 34051 Winston Churchill, Pullman guard-parlour car 208, Hearse van S2464S, Pullman kitchen-parlour car Carina, Pullman kitchen-parlour car Lydia, Pullman parlour car Perseus, Pullman guard-parlour car Isle of Thanet. The hearse was a Southern Railway Gangwayed Bogie Luggage van, no. 2464, which was built in 1931 as part of a batch of 30. It had been withdrawn from normal service in 1961, and was set aside and repainted into the Pullman cream and umber colours in July 1962. The van was kept out of public gaze in Stewarts Lane carriage sheds. While being prepared, the locomotive carried the four discs in an inverted 'T' formation—the headcode for a Royal train, but this was subsequently changed. The headcode used while pulling the special was one disc on each side of the locomotive's smokebox, and a third in the middle of the bufferbeam—a 'V' formation evoking Churchill's 'V for Victory' sign. In reality, that headcode would normally only have been used for a breakdown train. The train was routed via , , , , and , where it left the Southern Region and joined the Western Region. The train continued to Handborough via Didcot East and North Junctions and . 34051 then retraced its route back to London light engine, the special train being taken back to Paddington by 'Western' class diesel-hydraulic D1015 Western Champion. 34051 was withdrawn later that year on 19 September 1965, having covered . Preservation After hauling Churchill's funeral train, 34051 was earmarked for preservation, so in