what is its role in the london burial crisis?
It helped in sorting out the overwhelming burials during the cholera epidemic.
London Necropolis Railway
In 1848–49 a cholera epidemic killed 14,601 people in London and overwhelmed the burial system completely. Bodies were left stacked in heaps awaiting burial, and even relatively recent graves were exhumed to make way for new burials.
when did the london necropolis railway opened? November 1854 what was its purpose? To carry corpses and mourners between London and the LNC's newly opened Brookwood Cemetery southwest of London in Brookwood, Surrey.
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London Necropolis Railway [SEP] London burial crisis
In 1848–49 a cholera epidemic killed 14,601 people in London and overwhelmed the burial system completely. Bodies were left stacked in heaps awaiting burial, and even relatively recent graves were exhumed to make way for new burials.