Dedicated exclusively to transporting corpses and their grieving relatives, the London Necropolis Railway was established in 1854 to solve a massive public health crisis.

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Dedicated exclusively to transporting corpses and their grieving relatives, the London Necropolis Railway was established in 1854 to solve a massive public health crisis. The city's graveyards were overflowing with the dead, so officials built a massive new cemetery 23 miles away in Brookwood and created a special train line just to haul the bodies out of town. The trains had different classes of tickets for the dead, meaning even in the afterlife, the Victorians made sure the rich didn't have to mingle with the poors. This incredibly morbid transit system ran for almost a century until its station was bombed during the Blitz in 1941, proving that humans will literally invent a VIP commuter rail for rotting flesh rather than just practicing basic urban planning!