Re: Necropolis Railway

Aug 16, 2003 1 Replies


Just finished reading an interesting thriller set in Edwardian London,


>and centred around the Necropolis Railway, which used the line from
>Waterloo to Woking to carry funerals from central London to the huge
>cemetery at Brookwood.
>
>Good reading and full of railway interest.

There is also a book (Oakwood?) on the history of the real thing. I've not read it, but I've seen it around.

I have, its very good, the book you are thinking of is:

The Brookwood Necropolis Railway, by John M Clarke, Locomotive Papers 143,

3rd Edition Oakword Press 1994,

Cheers

David

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