Last Stop on the London Necropolis Railway
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London Necropolis Railway
The end of the line for thousands of Londoners in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was a railway dedicated to transporting corpses from the capital to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. The London Necropolis Railway opened in 1854, in response to chronic overcrowding in cemeteries where the same graves were being used over and over again for fresh internments. The previous occupants’ bones were often left scattered on the ground or sold to local bone mills to be ground up as fertilizer.