Final Journey

Auteur

NICOLAS WHEATLEY is a retired solicitor, with two law degrees, as well as a Masters in in 'Death and Society' from the University of Bath. He has written a number of articles on funeral trains and has always been steeped in the world of, having had two great-grandfathers who worked on the railways. He is a working volunteer on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway. And lives in Cheltenham.

Texte du rabat

How and why trains were used to transport coffins across the British Isles for functional and ceremonial purposes, from the early days of the Victorian railways until the present day