Today, an optimistic traveller might take 43 minutes to travel direct from Brookwood Station in Surrey to London Waterloo. It’s a well-worn commuter route and so, after a weary day in the city, returning workers might be forgiven for declaring themselves “dead tired” as they walk along Waterloo Bridge Road towards the grand old station.
But for some in the past it was a far, far longer journey, and only ever one way — because this was once the departure point for one of the strangest rail services in British history. A train not for the living, but the dead.
