The Metropolis

Is there anything in the rumour about the Whitechapel dead body train?

Mike Pollitt | Wednesday 2 November, 2011 14:44

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“The documentary “Ghosts of the London Underground” mentions a train that once rumbled through a tunnel connecting Whitechapel Tube station to the Royal London Hospital – a train with no passengers, or no live passengers at least. It was known as the Dead Body Train, an ominous title that leaves little to the imagination”

When I heard this rumour, discussed in a nice post at Urban Ghosts, it was claimed that the train was still running! But it looks like that was just a brilliant lie.

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