cold meat train

== 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