English Explanatory Dictionary

cold meat train

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The last railway train of the night by which officers could reach Aldershot via the South Western Railway.

Word forms

cold meat train cold meat trains

Etymology

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

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