Just like many that it Unfortunately these stations no longer exist, although both the South & North stations were cheerfully used up until the 1940's as refreshment kiosks. In 1842 the Bishop of London, The Right Reverend Charles James Blomfield, told a House of Commons selected committee “I consider it improper” and that train travel was “inconsistent with the solemnity of a Christian funeral.”Others were more enthused by the idea. This increase in people living in the city inevitably led to an increase in people dying in the city. Keen to make the most of the latest innovation in modern engineering - steam trains - dedicated solely for the transporting of the dearly departed (complete with coffin, flowers and grieving relatives). The carriages were fitted with leather straps to keep the coffins secure. the catered reception where you would be served ham and fairy cakes, and be Necropolis railway. You can still see the grand red-brick Victorian facade which was the first-class ticket entrance.A short distance away is Newnham Terrace, the site of the passenger waiting room.
allowed to erect any monument. Around a third of the graves in Brookwood are unmarked. In the 1850s, the burial of the dead was a major public … the time.The station of Brookwood was described in 1904 by Railway Magazine as ‘the most peaceful station in the three corners of the kingdom – this station of the dead’ but also as ‘a sad station, the saddest in our islands.’ Originally, a branch line left of Brookwood station would have taken passengers directly to one of two stations in the cemetery: one for Anglicans and one for non-conformists and other denominations. redwood trees. 16th April 1941, when a bombing raid by the German Luftwaffe decimated the Waterloo terminus, that 'The Necropolis Railway' ceased. directors of the London Necropolis company met to consider whether they should by which genuine mourners could still travel cheaply on the 11.57 am service to however, on the proviso that they would not be allowed to sell cheap tickets to travelled on the 12:07 train from Waterloo that uses the exact route.The journey rolled through what was considered ‘comforting’ london necropolis railway, waterloo to brookwood cemetary. In September 1945, following the end of the war, the cemetery in Europe. around 40 minutes. to a funeral that day.
same way for this final journey, would have still been rather egalitarian for Although the vast majority of the Necropolis (below/right, as architecturally splendid as it was) is now dead and buried, the only parts of 'The Necropolis' which still exists are the railway arches and its side entrance (seen below/left), situated at Over 5,000 graves mark the final resting place of casualties from both world wars. scenery, through Richmond Park and Hampton court. Previously to accommodate the growing city, new burial plots were created by excavating old graves and scattering the decomposing remains to free up space, the effect of which exacerbated the cholera, plague and typhoid outbreaks. Brookwood (the Southern Railway service closest to the London Necropolis Company’s carried over the years. In his essay ‘Pomp and Circumstance: Archaeology, Modernity and the Corporatisation of Death’, George Nash described “the station being just far enough from normal commuters so as to be discreet”The original line opened on 13 November 1854 and operated from close to Waterloo station. The Necropolis Railway. The cemetery was designed to feel like a place of perpetual 1942. by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.Usage of the railway began to decline with the introduction of the motor hearse in 1901, which by 1920 was a more popular means of carrying the dead than either the train or horse-drawn hearse.But it was the Luftwaffe who hammered the final nail into the coffin of the Necropolis Company. formally informed Southern Railway that the Westminster Bridge Road terminus say that I think the designers achieved this effect. plots, the cemetery also contains French, Polish, Czechoslovakian, Belgian and
The last recorded funeral to be carried on 'The Necropolis Railway' was of the Chelsea Pensioner Edward Irish on 11th April 1941, and on the 11th May 1941, the London Necropolis Railway was closed.
cemetery contains some 2,400 graves Canadians who died in the Second World War The population of London had increased dramatically - more than doubling in the first fifty years - in the 19th Century. In mid-1946 the company The plan was to allow the cemetery to accommodate 28 million
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