This is the former entrance to the London Necropolis Railway - a railway designed to carry corpses and mourners between Central London and the newly opened Brookwood Cemetery London had faced an ongoing crisis of how to bury its dead for many hundreds of years, but by the 1850s it was at breaking point. Remains had been periodically transferred to charnel houses to free up space, as they were in the catacombs in Paris. However amid several epidemics of Cholera and Typhoid, even recent burials were being exhumed, and the public health disaster became too much for the government to ignore. Afte…
