Morgan Webb

1 week ago | bbc.co.uk | Morgan Webb |Patrick Barlow

Image source, John ClarkeImage caption, Brookwood Cemetery was once home to a "bizarre" railway service serving the living and the deadWalking through the woodlands in Surrey's Brookwood Cemetery, very few indicators remain of its connection to one of the UK's most "bizarre" railway services. In the mid-19th Century, thousands of bodies a year would arrive on trains from Waterloo to Woking with carriages for both the living and the dead.