cold meat train

noun

noun

Etymology So called because this train used to convey corpses to Woking on behalf of the London Necropolis Company.

Government, Military, Politics, War UK, Obsolete, Slang The last railway train of the night by which officers could reach Aldershot via the South Western Railway.

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