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The London Necropolis railway station was a special railway station constructed by the London Necropolis Company
London Necropolis Company

The London Necropolis Company, also London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company, was set up in 1850, and established by Act of Parliament in 1852....
 for funeral train
Funeral train

A funeral train is a train specially chartered in order to carry a coffin or coffins to a resting place. Funeral trains today are often reserved for leaders and national heroes, as part of a state funeral, but in the past were sometimes the chief means of transporting coffins and mourners to cemetery....
s, specifically to serve their Brookwood Cemetery
Brookwood Cemetery

Brookwood Cemetery is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. It is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in western Europe....
.

Opened on 13 November 1854 just outside London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
's Waterloo station
Waterloo station

London Waterloo is a major railway terminus in London, England owned and operated by Network Rail. It is in the London Borough of Lambeth near the South Bank, in Travelcard Zone 1, and houses a British Transport Police station....
 on the London and South Western Railway
London and South Western Railway

The London and South Western Railway was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922. Its network extended from London to Plymouth via Salisbury and Exeter, with branches to Ilfracombe and Padstow and via Southampton to Bournemouth and Weymouth, Dorset....
, three-carriage trains took coffin
Coffin

A coffin is a funerary box used in the display and containment of deceased remains ? either for burial or cremation....
s and mourners from the station — located between York Street (now Leake Street) and Westminster Bridge Road – directly to platforms within the cemetery. The station was rebuilt a short distance away at 121 Westminster Bridge Road
Westminster Bridge Road

Westminster Bridge Road is a short, but busy, road in London, London SE1. It runs on an east-west axis and passes through the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark....
 in 1902 when the mainline station was reconstructed.

Prior to 1900 funeral trains usually ran once each day but after this only operated "as required" until by the mid-1930s they only ran twice each week; much of their traffic having moved to the road network.






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The London Necropolis railway station was a special railway station constructed by the London Necropolis Company
London Necropolis Company

The London Necropolis Company, also London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company, was set up in 1850, and established by Act of Parliament in 1852....
 for funeral train
Funeral train

A funeral train is a train specially chartered in order to carry a coffin or coffins to a resting place. Funeral trains today are often reserved for leaders and national heroes, as part of a state funeral, but in the past were sometimes the chief means of transporting coffins and mourners to cemetery....
s, specifically to serve their Brookwood Cemetery
Brookwood Cemetery

Brookwood Cemetery is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. It is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in western Europe....
.

Opened on 13 November 1854 just outside London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
's Waterloo station
Waterloo station

London Waterloo is a major railway terminus in London, England owned and operated by Network Rail. It is in the London Borough of Lambeth near the South Bank, in Travelcard Zone 1, and houses a British Transport Police station....
 on the London and South Western Railway
London and South Western Railway

The London and South Western Railway was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922. Its network extended from London to Plymouth via Salisbury and Exeter, with branches to Ilfracombe and Padstow and via Southampton to Bournemouth and Weymouth, Dorset....
, three-carriage trains took coffin
Coffin

A coffin is a funerary box used in the display and containment of deceased remains ? either for burial or cremation....
s and mourners from the station — located between York Street (now Leake Street) and Westminster Bridge Road – directly to platforms within the cemetery. The station was rebuilt a short distance away at 121 Westminster Bridge Road
Westminster Bridge Road

Westminster Bridge Road is a short, but busy, road in London, London SE1. It runs on an east-west axis and passes through the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark....
 in 1902 when the mainline station was reconstructed.

Prior to 1900 funeral trains usually ran once each day but after this only operated "as required" until by the mid-1930s they only ran twice each week; much of their traffic having moved to the road network. On the night of 16 April 1941 the station was hit by bombs and never rebuilt or re-opened. However, the entrance to the station still stands in Westminster Bridge Road.

The station and cemetery are fictionalised in the book The Necropolis Railway by Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin (novelist)

Andrew Martin is an English novelist and journalist.Martin was brought up in Yorkshire, studied at the University of Oxford and qualified as a barrister....
.

Fiction

  • The Necropolis Railway, Faber and Faber, Martin, A., 2003, ISBN 0-571-20991-2


See also


  • A service ran from a funeral station at King's Cross, on Rufford Street to the north of the main station , to the Great Northern London Cemetery in New Southgate
    New Southgate

    New Southgate is a residential suburb in the south-east corner of the London Borough of Barnet and the south-west corner of the London Borough of Enfield in North London, England....
      between 1861 and 1865
  • Rookwood Cemetery railway line,
    Rookwood Cemetery railway line, Sydney

    The Rookwood Cemetery Line used to be a part of the Sydney suburban network now known as CityRail. The line serviced Rookwood Cemetery and was built in 1864, opening on 22 October 1864     Sydney
    Sydney

    Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....


External links

  • – The Brookwood Cemetery Railway (history)