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English
Etymology
So called because this train used to convey corpses to Woking on behalf of the London Necropolis Company.
Noun
cold meat train (plural cold meat trains)
- (UK, slang, obsolete, military) The last railway train of the night by which officers could reach Aldershot via the South Western Railway.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary