London Necropolis Railway: The Train For The Dead

London Necropolis Railway: The Train For The Dead
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It was a difficult time to be alive in 1848 London, and worse still to be dead. A cholera epidemic had just swept through the city killing nearly 15,000 of its inhabitants, and bodies were literally pilling up besides churches waiting to be buried. But there was one problem: there was no space to bury.
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