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One Way to Necropolis

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The history of the "dead line" where trains took the departed to their final station.

Waterloo to Woking. Alan Dein explores the "dead line" where trains took the departed to their final station. From 2005.

In search of a coffin ticket, a Victorian funeral train and the guardians of what was once the world's largest cemetery. 

Alan Dein retraces the route of the Necropolis Railway - from London's Waterloo station to Woking - and uncovers the story of the station of the dead. 

Producer: Neil McCarthy

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2005.

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