The London Necropolis & National Mausoleum Company opened its doors to coffins and corpses on the 13th November 1854. A ‘Train for the Dead?’ It sounds fantastic, like something out of an Edgar Allen Poe story or the title of a slasher movie. However, the London Necropolis was very real, and it was very popular too. London’s cemeteries and burial grounds had been suffering from overcrowding, and space for the recently, dearly departed was scarce. As a result, London’s dead were being buried so near the surface, they had become fodder for the foxes. The dead bodies needed somewhere to go. A plot under the branches of a weeping willow was preferable to a shallow grave and possibly being eaten by vermin. The London Necropolis was the answer. It ran until 11th April 1941 after being resited in 1902. I find it strange that there aren’t many stories about it. What if it started to run again, but this time, it brought the bodies back.