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	Waterloo station - free-definition
		Funerary trains bearing coffins (at 2/6 each - singles, naturally) left from the "Necropolis Station" just outside the main station.
		The station became increasingly ramshackle and cluttered as the 19th century went on, until the decision was finally taken to tear the whole thing down and begin again.
		Construction began on the new station in 1900 and continued until 1922, with the new station boasting 21 platforms and a concourse nearly 800 feet long.
	www.free-definition.com /Waterloo-station.html

	London Necropolis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The former London Necropolis railway station near Waterloo station in
		The London Necropolis Company, operators of Brookwood Cemetery
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Necropolis

	Burial Grounds
		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.
		Initially 500 acres of the Brookwood site were set out as a cemetery with two railway stations, the South one for Anglicans, and the North one for Non-conformists.
		The cemetery's North station was demolished in the 1960s and the abandoned South station burnt down in 1972.
	www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk /Burial.html

	Riding the Death Line
		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.
		The idea of using the railways to link London to the new rural cemeteries had been in the air for some years when Broun presented his plan, but not everyone was convinced.
		The 2,000-acre plot he had in mind – soon dubbed “London’s Necropolis” – was about 25 miles (40km) from the city, far enough away to present no health hazard and cheap enough to allow for affordable burials.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/179_deathline.shtml

	Wokingham Woking F.C. Wokingham (district) Wokingham Rural
		Woking was formed around the station built there over 150 years ago to act as a junction between trains to the south coast and the necropolis railway to Brookwood cemetery.
		It was also the location for Brookwood Cemetery Brookwood Cemetery (aka the London Necropolis) was set up by the London Necropolis Company in 1852 to house London's dead, since the capital was finding it difficult to locate the increasing population, both of living and dead.
		It is about 30 minutes by train from London London is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow).
	www.masterliness.com /a/Woking.htm

	Demise of the Necropolis Railway by John M. Clarke
		The air raids on that night were the heaviest yet in the London Blitz and became known to all Londoners as 'the Wednesday.' The notes in the Southern Railway's air raid log book tell the story of the destruction of most of the Necropolis station during that night:
		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.
		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.
	www.historyplace.com /specials/clarke.htm

	Juergs London Guide - Social History
		This is also one of the most interesting and the second oldest surviving church in London after the chapel in the tower.
		This area was one of the worst slums in 19 century London.
		Recently the remains of a foundation pier of this first bridge have been found very close to the current London Bridge, the line of the road to the bridge followed what is now Fish Street Hill.In 1014 it was burned down by King Ethelred to split up the Viking armies.
	juerg.ch /london/special/slum.shtml

	What is she reading?: The Necropolis Railway
		He has been working at a local railway station in Robin Hood Bay as a porter, but one day meets by accident the chairman of a London railway company, who agrees to take on Jim as an engine cleaner.
		The story follows Jim, as he tries to uncover what happened to his predecessor, and whether other deaths connected with the Necropolis Railway, are murder, as opposed to accidents as everyone else would have him believe.
		Because of this, the book seemed perfect for me - A murder mystery set around a railway leading to a vast Necropolis (cemetary) around which several people have either died or disappeared in mysterious circumstances.
	www31.brinkster.com /chimera252/blogger/2003/08/necropolis-railway.asp

	Andrew Martin The Necropolis Railway Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		He reads The Railway Magazine religiously, and is a porter in a country train station.
		The ambience of the London train yards is quite forbidding, and at times seems almost alien and unknowable.
		Stringer is wrong about almost everyone he meets, and Martin plays the dual viewpoint -- Stringer's and the reader's -- like a virtuoso, stoking the fires of plot and character to pump up the terror and keep his know-nothing protagonist slowly -- but not too slowly -- growing up.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2004/martin-necropolis_railway.htm

	Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society
		In a somewhat unfashionable part of London near Norwood Junction railway station, recognition has been an uphill process, but at least there are now signs of restoration.
		Many London churches were open and other organisations, including SPAB, opened their offices to visitors.
		This was an opportunity not to be missed and a dash was made from the London Taxi Centre, designed by Wallace Gilbert for the Daimler Car Hire Co, in Bloomsbury to the East End to see the interior of this famous hall where Brian Daubney was singing to demonstrate the acoustic as we arrived.
	www.glias.org.uk /news/166news.html

	Historical Notes on Brookwood Cemetery (London Necropolis, Great Woking Cemetery)
		As Brookwood could be reached cheaply and conveniently only by railway, the London & South Western Railway was engaged to convey coffins and mourners from a private station adjacent to Waterloo down into the Cemetery.
		By the mid-nineteenth century the volume of London's dead was causing considerable public concern.
		At Brookwood there were two stations, one for the Nonconformist sections, the other for the Anglican areas.
	www.tbcs.org.uk /history.htm

	Waterloo Station
		The station also housed the London terminal of The London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company, a platform dedicated to the dead and their greiving relatives and friends.
		Waterloo Station is the principle mainline railway terminus serving Southern England and through the Channel Tunnel (Eurotunnel) to Continental Europe.
		The station is on the southern bank of the River Thames between Westminster and Waterloo Bridges roughly opposite Whitehall.
	www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk /Waterloo.html

	London During the Blitz
		The London Necropolis Railway Station, a privately owned station in Westminster Bridge Road, after London's biggest night raid of the war.
		At a London railway station, arriving troops pass by children who are being evacuated to the countryside.
		The first mass air raid on London, September 7, 1940, showing the scene in London's dock area as Tower Bridge stands out against a background of smoke and fires.
	www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/timeline/london-blitz.htm

	Author Andrew Martin visits Waterloo Library < Features < London SE1
		A young man comes from Yorkshire to work on the railway and is sent to join a team on the Necropolis Railway taking the dead and their mourners to Brookwood cemetery.
		The Necropolis Railway by Andrew Martin is published by Faber (£6.99).
		He discussed his novel which is named after the secret railway station for the dead which still exists nearby in Westminster Bridge Road.
	www.london-se1.co.uk /news/view.php?ArtID=995

	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.
		The train leaves the Westminster Station daily at 11.20.
		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

	CNAUK Home Page
		It is situated close to Woking, Surrey, and was accessible only by rail from a special cemetery station — The London Necropolis railway station, situated next to Waterloo train and tube station.
		The cemetery, originally known as the London Necropolis, was established in 1852 to house London’s deceased since the capital was finding it difficult to locate the increasing population, both living and dead.
		The cemetery station was demolished after suffering heavy bomb damage during WWII.
	www.cnauk.navy.mil

	Brookwood Cemetery Railway
		The new station was located at 121 Westminster Bridge Road and continued to provide railway funeral traffic until the station was bombed on the night of 16-17th April 1941.
		After calling at North Station, the railway crossed Cemetery pales (the road which runs through the Cemetery grounds) on a level crossing.
		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.
	www.tbcs.org.uk /railway.htm

	London My Waterloo
		Anyone who read Andrew Martin's thriller "The Necropolis Railway" may be interested in a tour which includes the Necropolis railway HQ and Brookwood Cemetery on Sunday 14th November at 10.30am at 121 Westminster Bridge Road.
		LONDON TO SOUTHEND.....: Is the london to Southend harder or easier than th...
		Or there are some other pubs behind the station in the nice area with the terraced housing, its all very Charles Dickens.
	www.movethat.co.uk /London/My/Waterloo

	Waterfall, Durrant and Barclay UK - Local Area - History
		The Act predicted the development of a new town around the station by insisting that five acres be set aside for a church, parsonage and school for the poor.
		In 1864 the Necropolis Company asked for a five-year extension to their land sales, but when this expired they still had a large amount of undeveloped land on their hands.
		In the 1840s and 50s, London was facing a serious threat from outbreaks of cholera and other infectious diseases.
	www.waterfalls.co.uk /wokingukcom/hisbrookcemnec.htm

	Railway Station database
		260211 : LP 159 : Railways of Porthgain & Abereiddi [R.C.Jermy] (1986) 0 8536 1340 0
		260002 : LP 136 : The Ely and St.Ives Railway [P.Paye] (1982) 0 8536 1272 2
		260184 : LP 68 : Railways of Purbeck [R.W.Kidner] (1988) 0 8536 1372 9
	www.mulehouse.demon.co.uk /stations/books/books9.htm

	Research Information
		RUABON BROOK RAILWAY, 1800-1847, AKA THE PONTYCYSYLITE TRAMWAY, LEASED TO THE LNWR, NIL
		BALLYMENA + LARNE RAILWAY, 1877-1889, AMALGAMATED WITH THE MIDLAND RAILWAY
		CARRICKFERGUS & LARNE RAILWAY, 1862-1890, AMALGAMATED WITH THE MIDLAND RAILWAY
	www.railwayancestors.fsnet.co.uk /research.html

	Vauxhall, Kennington & the Oval: Trains & Northern Line: History
		Special funeral trains ran between London Necropolis Station and Brookwood Cemetery, offering one-way tickets for coffins, and returns for everyone else.
		The entrance to the Necropolis Station can still be seen at 121 Westminster Bridge Road (see photo on left) but the station has not been used since it was bombed in April 1941.
		There were two stations at Brookwood, one essentially "Church of England" and one non-conformist and/or non-Christian.
	www.vauxhallandkennington.org.uk /trains.shtml

	Southern Railway Stations Page
		Article, Early Lewes Railway Stations and their names.
		Station buildings, cattle pens, signal box, water tower, sheds
		South station, pw huts, staff hut, lamp room
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /mickssrsource/tpagesrs/tsrstations.html

	What has Mark been reading lately?
		The Brookwood Necropolis Railway : The London Necropolis Cemetery ran funeral trains from near Waterloo Station to the Brookwood Cemetery near Woking from 1854 until the Blitz of April 17, 1941 destroyed part of the original London terminus and some of the rolling stock.
		Service never really recovered after the Second World War as motorized conveyance of the dead became more economical than rail.
	www.oz.net /~markhow/lately.htm

	Halfbakery: Theme park cemetery
		In Victorian times in London, there was a special railway station talking funeral parties to Brookwood cemetery ("Six second-class returns and one single to Brookwood, please"), with special carriages for carrying the coffins.
		I don't know, there's a lot of dinosaurs out there.
	www.halfbakery.com /lr/idea/Theme_20park_20cemetery

	Blackwater Station : British Family Tree
		This is a compiled chart of major British railway companies, it intends to show how each of them formed and expanded during their lifetime before the Grouping in 1923.
		LONDON, BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST 1846________________________>SR 1923
		Kent Coast 1861_________ Sittingbourne & Sheerness 1856________
	www.18xx.net /history/uktree.htm

	London During the Blitz
		The London Necropolis Railway Station, a privately owned station in Westminster Bridge Road, after London's biggest night raid of the war.
		At a London railway station, arriving troops pass by children who are being evacuated to the countryside.
		The first mass air raid on London, September 7, 1940, showing the scene in London's dock area as Tower Bridge stands out against a background of smoke and fires.
	www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/timeline/london-blitz.htm

	Woking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Woking was formed around the railway station built over 150 years ago at the junction between trains to the south coast, the south-west of England and the necropolis railway to Brookwood Cemetery.
		Woking railway station is situated on the Alton Line, Portsmouth Direct Line, South Western Main Line and West of England Main Line.
		There is a RailAir coach every 30 minutes between the terminus immediately outside the railway station and Heathrow Airport, using the M25 motorway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woking,_Surrey

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