Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Sydney is home to the largest cemetery in the Southern Hemisphere, and once upon a time it had its own dedicated railway line...

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Quotation narration by fraxyl.

0:00 Introduction
0:23 City of the Dead: Rookwood Necropolis
2:32 Not In My 19th Century Backyard
6:37 City of the Dead
10:32 The Lightning Ridge Connection
13:32 And a Personal Connection
15:38 Railway of the Dead
16:16 Starting the Journey: Regent Street
20:39 Funeral Trains
21:25 Cemetery Station No. 1
26:06 Cemetery Station No. 2
26:40 Cemetery Station No. 3
27:30 Cemetery Station No. 4
28:17 The Death of the Funeral Train
29:04 The Other Rookwood
31:20 Other History
32:50 Thoughts on Visiting Cemeteries
33:51 How to get to Rookwood
34:43 Acknowledgments

Peter J. Shield's Magic Mortuary Station: youtube.com/watch?v=Bhella1bDfI

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