- Publisher: History Press
- Year: 2020
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304PP
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 234x156mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9780750994330
- Product code: 542551
Final Journey
The Untold Story of Funeral Trains
Nicolas Wheatley New Paperback Illustrated
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With previously unpublished photographs among its illustrations, this book details the role railways played between the Victorian era and the 1980s in carrying the dead to their place of rest, and how heritage railways continue to offer ceremonial transport.
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This new history reveals the previously untold story of why and how trains have been used to transport the dead, enabling their burial in a place of significance to the bereaved. Profusely illustrated with many images, some never previously published, Nicolas Wheatley's work details how the mainline railways carried out this important yet often hidden work from the Victorian age to the 1980s, as well as how ceremonial funeral transport continues on heritage railways today. From royalty, aristocrats and other VIPs (including Sir Winston Churchill and the Unknown Warrior) to victims of accidents and ordinary people, Final Journey explores the way in which these people travelled for the last time by train before being laid to rest.
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With previously unpublished photographs among its illustrations, this book details the role railways played between the Victorian era and the 1980s in carrying the dead to their place of rest, and how heritage railways continue to offer ceremonial transport.
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Nicolas Wheatley
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234x156mm
History Press
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Paperback
Social & Cultural
Trains & Railways
