Photo Class 444030 Desiro EMU in South West Trains Livery at Brookwood 2014

Class 444030 Desiro EMU Brookwood Train Station

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

South West Trains, Desiro Class 444030 electric multiple unit, (EMU), photographed speeding through Brookwood station, Surrey, England, operating a 'fast' service to London Waterloo on the 29th June 2014.

The station building behind the train on platform 2 is an historical structure.  It was built for the Necropolis Railway which operated in Victorian times from 1854 until 1941- first from Westminster Bridge Road, London, (1854 - 1902) and subsequently from Waterloo Station (1902 - 1941).

The station was built specifically to handle transportation of coffins and mourners to Brookwood Cemetery.

The cemetery boundary was close to the station building and could be accessed by an underpass.  

The original station underpass is still open as is the cemetery.

Further details about the Necropolis Railway can found in a blogpost on 'Along These Tracks' entitled, Victorian Funeral Railway History. 

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