The LNER Encyclopedia

Just in time for Halloween, Kestrel. Thanks.

IIRC, there was a funeral train out of Kings Cross at one time. Just a short hop up to around Belle Isle, I believe.

Oh, forget that. I just found something from six years ago in this forum from our man Stevie G. (Third post down on the page.)
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Cheers.

Waterloo Cemetery station along side Waterloo terminus?.

"That was a right dead end job".

Mickey

Not alongside, but a short distance outside, on the south side. It was called "Necropolis" and ran trains to Brookwood Cemetery. A separate company, wholly owned by the LSWR, I believe.Closed during WW2 after bomb damage. One of the two stations at the cemetary (no doubt the Catholic one) had a bar allegedly displaying the sign "Spirits Served Here".

Kudu

I presume Waterloo Necropolis station was a fairly dead sorta place most of the time with hardly a soul to be seen floating about especially at night or at weekends?.

Also I presume anyone showing up at the Waterloo booking office 'looking like death warmed up' and asking the clerk for a "Return ticket to Brookwood Cemetery" would get one?.

Mickey

G'day Gents

Yes, you could get a return ticket to Brookwood Cemetery, as the mourners had to come back to London, you couldn't really bury those as well.

manna

I would guess only trains from the Necropolis station would serve the two stations in the cemetery itself. Some of the passengers might have looked like death warmed up, but some looked suspiciously fit with dress more suited to the golf course than a funeral. The fare (return) from Necropolis station was often less than a Waterloo-Brookwood return, close to the golf course, I understand.

Kudu

After reading about this business of carrying a deceased person's body in a coffin on a train it reminds me of a long lost memory of a deceased person being carried in a coffin in the guards brake compartment of a Cravens unit one day on a regular service from Kings Cross to either Hitchin, Royston or Cambridge I can't remember which place it was or know where the coffins final destination was but the coffin was still on the train when I got off at Welwyn Garden City that day.

Mickey