Publisher's Synopsis
Young Jim Stinger leaves Yorkshire, enticed by the prospect of becoming a railway man "of the right sort". But he arrives in the Waterloo of 1903, to discover a world of garish pubs and tawdry brothels boxed in by towering, blank-faced factories. He finds his duties are mysteriously confined to the strangest corner of the South Western's business: a railway line that runs to an enormous cemetery. The men he works alongside in the cold, clattering engine shed have formed an instant loathing for him. And, unnervingly, his predecessor disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Jim needs to think fast before he too is travelling on a one-way coffin ticket aboard the Necropolis Railway.
