• ^ Although these departure times varied slightly, over the 87 years of London Necropolis Railway operations they never deviated by more than 20 minutes.[49].
  • How on earth was a train for the dead able to garner such popularity? Why was the London Necropolis Railway introduced?
  • The offices, morgue and chapels of the London Necropolis Railway were based underneath the arches on Westminster Bridge Road.
  • The London Necropolis Railway Station was used to transport up to 2,000 bodies each year to Brookwood Cemetery between 1854 and 1941.
  • The London Necropolis railway was an almost daily service from Waterloo Station to Brookwood Cemetery near Woking, in Surrey, between 1854 and 1941.
  • So: what was the story of the London Necropolis Railway? London’s overcrowding situation. Post-medieval London was growing at an incredible rate.
  • This is the story of the Necropolis Railway in London. All that remains now is the building that housed the station, which you can walk right up to today.
  • In order to ferry the dead and their family of mourners the long distance, a dedicated railroad was built, named the London Necropolis Railway.
  • The show is is inspired by the real London Necropolis Railway which was active from the middle of the 1800s to the middle of the 1900s.
  • On that theme I was wondering - would you, our dearly beloved listeners, be interested in us continuing the story of the London Necropolis Railway in non-audio...