Facts and Figures
At 121 Westminster Bridge Road you’ll find the remains of Necropolis Station, where, from 1902 – 1941, trains left London bearing coffins on their way to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey.
The original station was opened on 11 July 1848 by the London and South Western Railway. The Necropolis station opened in October 1854 with the North station opening on 3 August 1860.
The connection to the South Eastern Railway opened in January 1864.
Waterloo Junction station (the present Waterloo East station) opened on 1 January 1869.
The South station opened on 16 December 1878 and an additional North platform was added in November 1885. The Waterloo and City station opened on 8 August 1898 while the new Necropolis station opened on 16 February 1902. The South Eastern Railway connection was decommissioned on 26 March 1911. The station was completely rebuilt between 1900 and 1922 and had its official opening on 21 March 1922. The Necropolis station was bombed on 16 April 1941 but was not rebuilt. The concourse underwent some remodelling work between 1978 and 1983.
The Necropolis Station
Near to Waterloo, at 121 Westminster Bridge Road, the London Necropolis Railway ran trains from an especially constructed station to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. The original station, at a spot near Leake Street, opened in 1854, and the Westminster Bridge Road station followed in 1902. The line was used to carry only the dead and their mourners to a London "overflow" cemetery, and operated from 1854 until 1941 when the station was bombed and never rebuilt.
