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Funeral Trains: Necropolis Private Station.
Necropolis Private Station.
Towards the middle of the eighteen hundreds cemetery spaces in the metropolis became scarce, so in 1854 a private company set up a station at 121 Westminster Bridge Road, opposite Waterloo Station, to transport the London Dead to
Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey. The waiting rooms had been allotted for the exclusive use of any mourners attending a private funeral. Added to this was also a beautifully equipped mortuary chapel. A single platform awaited the train of the dead. At its peak fifty bodies a day would be transported along this line, and would normally total three or four thousand a year until bomb damage closed it in 1941. Today hidden behind an iron gate is this historic station of the dead.
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