A hearse was a vehicle used for conveying the deceased throughout the universe. (TV: Before the Flood)
On the planet Segonax, the chief clown, wearing undertakers' clothing, travelled in a motor hearse — the type used on 20th and 21st century Earth — with dark-tinted windows, hunting down escapees from the Psychic Circus such as Bellboy and Flowerchild. (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
A similar motor hearse was used by the nuns of St Agnes Abbey while kidnapping Luke Smith. (TV: Eye of the Gorgon)
On Earth, during the 18th century and 19th centuries, a hearse was a type of horse-drawn carriage. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)
The body of Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson's was taken to Paris in a hearse following her death in 1764. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)
Gabriel Sneed owned a hearse as part of his business, Sneed and Company, in 1869. He and Gwyneth used it when locating the possessed corpse of Mrs Peace. Upon believing that Rose Tyler had seen too much, Sneed bundled her in the back of his hearse leading the Ninth Doctor, accompanied by Charles Dickens, to give chase. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)
Albar Prentis used an Arcateenian hearse to transport the Fisher King for burial on Earth. (TV: Before the Flood) The same hearse was later brought aboard the Drum, where markings aboard the ship caused the crew to turn into ghosts upon their demise. (TV: Under the Lake)