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The Victorians did all sorts of weird stuff. They wore jewellery made out of human hair, took postmortem portraits of dead people, and invented freak shows. So it’s no surprise that London has plenty of unusual relics left over from the era.
One such relic is the Necropolis Railway station. The train hub, which is found around the back of Waterloo station, used to be the entrance to a railway line for the dead. When London’s graveyards become full, the Victorians started building cemeteries on the city’s outskirts. They then invented a nifty train to transport the dead bodies out of the centre to a massive over-fill graveyard in Woking. Glamorous stuff. Now, the eerie train station in Waterloo is up for sale. We can’t promise it’s not haunted.
One moneyed buyer could get their hands on the Grade II-listed building for a whopping £4.25 million. According to the listing by Dexters, the 750 square metre building has got planning permission to be turned into seven luxury private residential apartments. The railway closed during World War II after the train line was bombed in the Blitz. The station building was turned into offices but has been empty for quite a few years. Sounds like quite the renovation project.
Here’s what it looks like inside.
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