The London Necropolis Railway was a railway line opened in November 1854 by the London Necropolis Company (LNC) to carry cadavers and mourners between London and the LNC’s newly opened Brookwood Cemetery 23 miles (37 km) southwest of London in Brookwood Surrey. At the time the largest cemetery in the world Brookwood Cemetery was designed to be large enough to accommodate all the deaths in London for centuries to come and the LNC hoped to gain a monopoly on London’s burial industry.
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