Exploring London's Lost Necropolis Railways: Waterloo to Brookwood & King's Cross to Colney Hatch

In 1854, the London Necropolis Railway began transporting coffins and mourners between Waterloo Station and Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey.

This unusual funeral service was joined a few years later by the far lesser known Great Northern London Cemetery Company, which ran a similar operation between King's Cross and Colney Hatch, Barnet.

This documentary examines the history of these two funeral railways together...

00.00 Introduction
1.33 Background: London's Burial Crisis
4.10 A City for the Dead
6.42 Founding the Great Northern Cemetery
9.01 Opposing London's Funeral Railways
13.23 Opening Brookwood Cemetery
14.10 Opening The Great Northern Cemetery
16.03 Other Roles
17.28 At Brookwood Cemetery
19.34 At The Great Northern Cemetery
21.24 Waterloo's 1st Necropolis Station
25.40 The King's Cross Cemetery Terminal
28.26 Waterloo's 2nd Necropolis Terminal
31.55 Demise of The Great Northern Cemetery
33.30 Demise of The London Necropolis Railway
35.49 Outro

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Music:

Past the Edge: Kevin MacLeod, Creative Commons
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UWGdYOCw04)

Dark Ambient Music for Reading, Creative Commons
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lATJR6DG23k&t=1648s)

Wander, Emmit Fenn, Creative Commons
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eD2vY7nhCg)

The Builder: Kevin MacLeod, Creative Commons
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6G3gB7DksA)

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear: Kevin MacLeod
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFHZuyFcfHo)

Frederic Chopin: Nocturne Op 9, No. 2
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w43GrnwZetE&t=3041s)

On the Ground: Kevin MacLeod
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDwvLrZdKNY)

Undertow: Scott Buckley, Creative Commons
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGpFFxNOiII)

Frederic Chopin, Nocturne Em Op72
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R91xrt6flWg)

Local Elevator: Kevin MacLeod
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8M-tb_ApgY)

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