Today, an optimistic traveller might take 43 minutes to travel direct from Brookwood Station in Surrey to London Waterloo. It’s a well-worn commuter route and so, after a weary day in the city, ...

Plus, the three historic UK train stations you can now explore as part of a new tour THE London Necropolis Railway has got to be one of the spookiest train lines in history. For 87 years, the service ...

Hidden behind the rugged concrete walls in Cemetery Pales in Brookwood is Brookwood Cemetery, the final resting place for thousands of people. Row upon row of graves remember loved ones lost, and ...

A Victorian train from the Waterloo area that brought the dead and their mourners directly out to a cemetery, the Necropolis Railway sounds like an absolute dream for the London Dungeon. It's actually ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter In times of plague and war, the dead definitely seem to be getting the upper hand. The victims of the plague of 1665 rapidly ...

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The Necropolis Railway ran for 87 years and was the Victorian answer to a severe lack of burial space in London. At the turn of the century the train was transporting more than 2000 bodies a year out ...