London Necropolis railway station

London Necropolis was a railway station, which established a connection to the cemetery Brookwood to London. It was built in 1854, destroyed during the London Blitz in 1941 up to the reception building and not rebuilt after the war.

History

Since the disposal of the bodies in London due to the limited space became more difficult in the 1850s, the London Necropolis Company, built in 1852, a large cemetery at Brookwood in Surrey, at the time the largest cemetery in the world. To ensure an effective transport, this company also built a railway station that was right next to Waterloo Station, on the London and South Western Railway. The station was opened on 13 November 1854 he was at the intersection of York Street (now Leake Street) and Westminster Bridge Road. The dead trains to Brookwood cemetery consisted of three wagons that carried both the coffins and the mourners directly to a platform on the cemetery grounds. Until about 1900, the trains ran daily from then on " as needed" basis, which led to a thinning of the clock and a sequence of moves of two trains a week due to the increasing competition from road vehicles until the 1930s.

By converting to Waterloo were moved to the Necropolis railway station in 1902 on the land 121 Westminster Bridge Road. Finally, a large part of the station building during a German air raid was then razed to the ground on April 16, 1941. The station was not rebuilt, only the station building still exists today.