Final Destination:
Brookwood and the Necropolis Railway

The final journey to Necropolis

The London and South Western Railway and later the Southern Railway ran a dedicated funeral rail service from London's Waterloo terminus to theBrookwood Cemetery.

The expansion of the Metropolis led to the creation of a corresponding Necropolis.

Narratives by Channel 4 and by the London Transport Museum places this undertaking in context

Only the entrance to the special Necropolis station survived Second World War bombing.

The building is now named Westminster Bridge House and sits betwen a convenience store and an office block.

A monograph by John M. Clarke is available from the Oakwood Press but the Brookwood Cemetery Society offers tours of the site.

This page contributed by
Steve Little
and
Margaret Grieco