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London Necropolis Railway (special railway to take the dead and mourners to Brookwood Cemetery, when London's cemeteries were too crowded)
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dantheclamman lemmy.world dantheclamman@lemmy.world
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Necropolis_Railway
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AllNewTypeFace leminal.space AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
Joined: 2023-08-20
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In the age before cars, many cities had such a railway (sometimes a branch or spur of an existing line that’s conveniently close). Some even had special stations for mourners to use, like the gothic-style Mortuary Station in Sydney.

I wonder if Londoners ever referred to the Necropolis Railway as the Necropolitan Line, in the way that they referred to the Overground as the Ginger Line and the Gospel Oak-Barking Line as the Goblin.
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