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Necropolis: London's railway for the dead

The Necropolis Railway ran for 87 years and was the Victorian answer to a severe lack of burial space in London. At the turn of the century the train was transporting more than 2000 bodies a year out to Brookwood Cemetery, at the time one of the largest burial places in the world.

(Photo: The London Necropolis Company's new Cemetery Station, 1890 - 1899 / Credit: National Railway Museum)

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