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)
- (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