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	Riding the Death Line
		LNC bought 2,000 acres of Woking Common land from Lord Onslow, and set aside 500 acres of that for the cemetery’s initial stage.
		The Bishop of London’s worries were addressed by ensuring that every Necropolis train would offer six distinct categories of accommodation, and that dead passengers would be given just as wide a choice as their live companions.
		LNC justified the higher fares it charged for First Class coffin accommodation by pointing to the higher degree of decoration provided on its First Class coffin cell doors and the greater degree of care which First Class coffins were given at both ends of the journey (see Dear departed, opposite).
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/179_deathline.shtml (1090 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In the mid-nineteenth century the volume of London's dead was causing considerable public concern.
		As Brookwood could be reached cheaply and conveniently only by railway, the London and South Western Railway was engaged to convey coffins and mourners from Waterloo to the Cemetery.
		The London Necropolis Company was dissolved around 1975 and although the grounds have changed hands several times since then, the Cemetery remains privately owned and administered.
	www.brookwoodcemetery.com /page2.html (356 words)

	London Necropolis railway station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The London Necropolis railway station was a special railway station constructed by the London Necropolis Company for funeral trains, specifically to serve their Brookwood Cemetery.
		Opened on 13 November 1854 just outside London's Waterloo station on the London and South Western Railway, three-carriage trains took coffins 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 at 121 Westminster Bridge Road in 1902 when the mainline station was reconstructed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Necropolis_railway_station (228 words)

	Londons Necropolis
		Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Brookwood Cemetery, London's Necropolis: A Guide to Brookwood Cemetery is the first major history and guide to Brookwood Cemetery.
		Brookwood was the largest burial ground in the world when it was opened in 1854 by the London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Company.
		London's Necropolis provides a history of the London Necropolis Company, a guide to the art and architecture of Brookwood Cemetery, and also includes brief biographies of over 800 individuals of interest who have been buried there, reflecting all levels of a lost society.
	www.tbcs.org.uk /londons_necropolis.htm (366 words)

	LONDON - Online Information article about LONDON
		During these periods other companies had a surplus of water, and in 1899 an act was passed providing for the interconnexion of systems.
		Merchant Taylors' was founded by the Company of that name in 1561, and has occupied, since 1875, the premises vacated by Charterhouse School.
		London University.—The University of London was incorporated by royal charter in 1836, as an examining body for conferring degrees.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LOB_LUP/LONDON.html (4364 words)

	Riding the Death Line
		One controversial decision made by the London Necropolis Company was that the refreshment rooms at its cemetery stations should serve alcoholic drinks.
		A ticket collector on another Necropolis train found one group of passengers so drunk that they were dancing round their carriage during the return journey to London.
		LNC denied this, saying he had not been served on their premises, but had retired to a nearby public house instead.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/179_deathline6.shtml (947 words)

	London Necropolis Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The London Necropolis Company, also London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Company, was set up in 1850, and established by Act of Parliament in 1852.
		Its purpose was to create a large metropolitan cemetery, big enough to hold all of London's dead forever.
		The London Necropolis Company was dissolved around 1975, and the cemetery has been administered privately since.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Necropolis_Company (123 words)

	Demise of the Necropolis Railway by John M. Clarke
		The London Necropolis Company had been operating funeral trains from London to Brookwood (in Surrey) since November 1854, when its vast 500 acre cemetery was opened.
		On December 29, 1940, the Necropolis train, berthed in its siding, was narrowly missed by several incendiary bombs and saved from damage by a screen of coal trucks standing on an adjacent line.
		The Necropolis was originally promoted as concerns about public health in the nation's capital and elsewhere had increased, London having suffered its first cholera epidemic in the mid-nineteenth century.
	www.historyplace.com /specials/clarke.htm (838 words)

	www.housesinwoking.com - Lynch & Company - Woking and Surrey Estate Agents
		It was a mainly agricultural waterway, with timber and flour being carried downstream to London and coal and finished goods carried upstream to the towns and villages along its route.
		When the Necropolis Company were negotiating with the lord of the manor of Woking (Lord Onslow) the local Vicar, the Rev, Charles Bradford Bowles, persuaded them to leave 150 acres of common so that the poor people of Woking would still have some land upon which they could exercise their ‘common rights’.
		The princess was a member of the Napalese Embassy in London when she became seriously ill. It was realised that she would die and as Hindu tradition stipulated that she must be cremated on an open-air pyre, the Home Office were asked where such a ceremony could take place.
	www.housesinwoking.com /pages/stjohns.htm (3199 words)

	The Cemetery Railway
		The main reason for this was that the Cemetery was over 25 miles from central London, and the only convenient method of transporting coffins and mourners was by the London and South Western Railway.
		The funeral trains ran from this private station, down the railway company's main line, and was then reversed into the Cemetery grounds at Brookwood.
		Radio 4 broadcast a thirty minute documentary "One Way to the Necropolis" on the cemetery railway on Monday 7th February 2005 at 8.30pm.
	www.tbcs.org.uk /railway.htm (484 words)

	The Brookwood Necropolis Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The "London Necropolis" was intended to become London's only cemetery by providing enough land to contain all the metropolitan dead for an almost indefinite period.
		It was established to solve London's burial problem.
		The London Necropolis Company was established in 1852 and provided the Brookwood cemetery near Woking in Surrey.
	www.rootsweb.com /~wiilbig/RevFiles/v3n4r3.htm (236 words)

	New Statesman - Where do we go to die?
		Based in Waterloo, the LNC ran a rail service to a 2,000-acre plot near Guildford in Surrey - which, it calculated, would hold all the metropolitan dead for an indefinite period.
		Their holding companies owned a limited space, and were bound by contract to maintain the graves in perpetuity.
		London currently possesses 3,000 acres of cemetery, and most of them are full.
	www.newstatesman.com /200010090038 (1950 words)

	Cabinet Magazine Online - Leftovers / The London Necropolis Railway
		It was built by the London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Company (LNC), established by a special Act of Parliament in 1852, as a one-stop solution to the problem of burying a burgeoning London’s dead.
		Brookwood was over twenty-five miles from central London and its most unusual distinguishing feature was that it was served by its own private railway.
		In London, the entrance building to the private station at 121 Westminster Bridge Road survives; at Brookwood, both stations were destroyed in the 1960s and early 1970s (a monastery, occupied by the St. Edward Brotherhood, has been built where South Station used to be).
	www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/20/clarke.php (644 words)

	Burial Grounds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company was granted an Act of Parliament in 1852 and bought 2000 acres of common land in Woking from Lord Onslow.
		Accordingly the train service was forced to close till after the war when the directors of the company decided that the train service was obsolete.
		The London terminus and what remained of the rolling stock was sold off.
	www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk /Burial.html (430 words)

	St. James's Church, Piccadilly \| British History Online
		Commissioners were appointed by Thomas, Lord Jermyn, and approved by the Bishop of London, to administer the church's affairs during this period, (ref.
		The church was rededicated by the Bishop of London (ref.
		281) The human remains in the vaults underneath the vestry hall were removed by the London Necropolis Company and a record made of the legible inscriptions on the coffins.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=40544 (17906 words)

	Waterfall, Durrant and Barclay UK - Local Area - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In the 1850s the London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Company bought the area as part of Woking Common for their cemetery, but unlike other parts of their estate they made little or no attempt to develop the area until the 1890s.
		The Necropolis Company used the Golf Club, and later the Lawn Tennis and Crochet Club, to promote their estate.
		The Company was careful not to restrict all development to large, expensive properties, but it was clear that where they could (notably along the escarpment along Hook Heath Road) they used the lie of the land to the full.
	www.waterfalls.co.uk /wokingukcom/hishook.htm (582 words)

	City of the Silent - Timeline of Death - The Romantic and Industrial Eras
		Her funeral is one of the largest in London history as disbelieving sympathizers line the streets to pay their respects.
		Madame Tussaud moves her London wax museum to Baker Street and combines her collection with a display of implements of torture and other horrific oddities.
		The U.S. Supreme Court rules that a cemetery company is an association formed for "a pious and public use".
	www.alsirat.com /silence/cemtime/time4.html (3052 words)

	Victorian London - Death and Dying - Cemeteries - Necropolis Railway / Woking Cemetery
		Victorian London - Death and Dying - Cemeteries - Necropolis Railway / Woking Cemetery
		NECROPOLIS - Established by Parliament - WOKING CEMETERY - The Company act also as Undertakers - FUNERALS PROVIDED complete, including private grave.
		Apply personally or by letter to the Secretary, 2, Lancaster-place, Strand, or any agent of the Company, either of whom will wait on the parties and undertake all the arrangements.
	www.victorianlondon.org /death/necropolis.htm (105 words)

	Woking's Railway - Woking Borough Council
		During the 1940's, churchyards in the capital were becoming full, resulting in the Burials Act of 1950 which prevented further burials in London and allowed cemeteries to be built away from the city.
		In 1854, 400 acres of the land bought by the 'London Necropolis' company, at Brookwood in the west of Woking Borough, were used for a national cemetery. The railway was used to transport London's bodies to the cemetery during the night. The remaining heath land was sold for development from 1855 onwards.
		Now one of the busiest in the region, Woking Station is a major gateway with connections to London, the south-west and the south coast.
	www.woking.gov.uk /woking/history (445 words)

	Spencer, The Man Versus The State, with Six Essays on Government, Society, and Freedom, Essay, Over-Legislation: ...
		In this case of cabs, for example, it has resulted since the late change of law, that old cabs, which were before saleable at £10 and £12 each, are now unsaleable and have to be broken up; and thus legislation has robbed cab-proprietors of part of their capital.
		Again, the recently-passed Smoke-Bill for London, which applies only within certain prescribed limits, has the effect of taxing one manufacturer while leaving untaxed his competitor working within a quarter of a mile; and so, as we are credibly informed, gives one an advantage of £1,500 a year over another.
		It is not only that joint-stock companies do so much; it is not only that by them a whole kingdom is covered with railways in the same time that it takes the Admiralty to build a hundred-gun ship; but it is that public instrumentalities are outdone even by individuals.
	www.econlib.org /library/LFBooks/Spencer/spnMvS7.html (12959 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2004401795
		The London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Company 70 32.
		The London Necropolis Company Act of 1852 71 33.
		The role and importance of the Necropolis Company 77 37.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/fy051/2004401795.html (305 words)

	dave2002: pitas page!
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		There's obviously a burst of ibsen in london, as the master builder is also being performed at the albery theatre.
		Most of you have seen the london tube map, and some may also have seen the paris metro map.
	web.pitas.com /dave2002/04_07_2003.html (4966 words)

	AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media
		On what might be the hottest day of the year so far in London, I thought I’d brighten your day with a post about coffin transportation on the London Underground.
		This is pretty ironic as Gladstone was on the private opening of the London Underground in 1863, making him one of the very first people to travel on the Tube.
		Many thought the clamour and bustle they associated with train travel would not suit the dignity demanded of a Christian funeral.’ However he managed to covince the powers that be and the service started operating from 13 November 1854 when the Cemetery opened to the public.
	www.agoravox.com /article.php3?id_article=4808 (924 words)

	The Necropolis Railway:A Jim Stringer Mystery by Andrew Martin from Harcourt Trade Publishers
		Bright and ambitious, young Jim Stringer moves from the English countryside to London deter- mined to become a railway man. It is 1903, the dawn of the Edwardian age, when steam runs the nation and the railways drive progress.
		Forced to live by his wits and to arrive at his own deductions—assisted by his landlady, for whom he falls— he tries to figure out what is going on before he is issued a one-way ticket on the Necropolis Railway.
		ANDREW MARTIN was a Spectator (London) Young Writer of the Year and has written for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and Granta.
	www.harcourtbooks.com /bookcatalogs/bookpages/9780156030687.asp (206 words)

	American Battle Monuments Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The World War I Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial is located southwest of the town of Brookwood, Surrey, England, about six miles north of Guildford and nine miles north-east of Aldershot.
		It may be reached by automobile from London, a distance of twenty-eight miles, or by train from Waterloo Station in less than an hour.
		This small cemetery of four and a half acres lies within the large civilian cemetery of the London Necropolis Company and contains the graves of 468 American military Dead from World War I. Close by are military cemeteries and monuments of the British Commonwealth and other Allied nations.
	www.abmc.gov /cemeteries/cemeteries/bk.php (365 words)

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		Travel back in time to Victorian London, where the city is bustling with preparations for Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee.
		Extensive arrangements are being made by the railway companies for the celebration of the jubilee.
		While re, any trains will run to London bringing visitors to take part in the central celebration, other passengers will be conveyed to the country either to take part in local festivities or to profit by the brief holiday which the national rejoicing supplies.
	members.tripod.com /diz_7/manuals/manuals-txt/sherlock.txt (15101 words)

	December 2000
		This was a joint trip between London Branch and the Brookwood Cemetery Society to look at the rocks and other interesting materials used in the headstones and other memorials to be found in the Cemetery.
		Indeed the railway was integral to the development of the Cemetery by the London Necropolis Company, as John Clarke, the Chairman of the Cemetery Society, was keen to point out to us.
		Although the Cemetery was originally developed as “London overspill”, it is still active today and is one of the major Muslim burial grounds in the UK.
	home.freeuk.net /lougs/december00.htm (3563 words)

	Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The most familiar example in this country of the relationship between railways and funerals is the service from Waterloo to the London Necropolis at Brookwood, which survived until 1941.
		The author sets his account in the context of London's burial problems, gives us the information that railway company histories should, not only descriptions of rolling stock, stations, tickets and services, but also something about the people involved, and the present day, and also seeks to explain why the service was a failure.
		Some of the illustrations have not reproduced well, presumably because of poor originals, and in my copy a slip provides a clear substitute for the plan on p18.That on p29 is not much better, although legible under a magnifying glass.
	www.glias.org.uk /books/209books.html (840 words)

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