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cold meat train

English edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

cold meat train (plural cold meat trains)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete, military) The last railway train of the night by which officers could reach Aldershot via the South Western Railway.

References edit

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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