Brookwood cemetery

Brookwood cemetery was the largest cemetery in the world when it opened in 1854, and was intended to be a permanent solution to the space and health crisis posed by the burial of London's dead as the metropolis boomed. The large plot of land on poor sandy soils was acquired by the London Necropolis Company beside the newly built railway, and the London Necropolis Railway had a dedicated terminus at Waterloo and a junction and sidings into the cemetery at Brookwood station. Funeral trains (three classes for both mourners and coffins) ran until 1941 when the Waterloo terminus was destroyed by bombing. An extraordinary story.