It was a difficult time in London in 1848 for the living, and worse still being dead, the cholera epidemic had swept the city and killed nearly 15,000 of its inhabitants, and the corpses were rolling to the side of churches waiting for burial, but there was one problem. There was no A place of burial.

The population of London was on the increase and in the year 1801 AD, the population of the city reached less than a million people, and in 1851 AD, this number doubled to nearly two and a half million individuals, but the 300 acres designated for burial remained unchanged, which required the use of cemeteries. Old remains, and the remains are removed regularly to make room for new burials.

The old corpses were scattered and crushed due to contamination of the soil with the water supply, which led to the emergence of a new group of epidemics, as cholera, smallpox, measles and typhoid were widespread in London in the Victorian era in abundance, and a number of proposed solutions were presented in 1852 AD when a new cemetery was opened outside the built-up area in London, but It was just a temporary solution.

Edwin Chadwick planned two large new cemeteries outside the boundaries of the Bondares metropolitan area, while the promoters of the Necropolis Cemetery planned a large cemetery far enough from the city not to be affected by urban growth, which could be accessed by taking a railroad train. The corpses passed by the train to reach the new cemetery, so a train was opened to transport the dead only.

The Necropolis railway did not take off the way that the London Necropolis Company had hoped at its peak from 1894 AD to 1903 AD, the train was carrying only 2,300 bodies per year, in 1902 AD, the daily train service ended due to the absence of passengers and by the 1930s, It was unusual for trains to run more than twice a week.

But on the night of April 16-17, 1941 AD, one of the worst air strikes on London occurred, and a bomb exploded at the railway station, making many of the tracks unusable, and after the war the company decided to reopen the railway station again, but it was not financially feasible. The line was closed, but over time the trains were running for 87 years and were transporting more than 200,000 bodies.

Today there are still a number of reminders about the railway service to transport the dead. The two stations were demolished in the sixties of the last century after they caught fire, but the entrance to the station was still intact and the station was not the only one to transport the dead. Sydney to transport the dead to the Rockwood Cemetery in Melbourne and in Berlin as well. This happened from 1913 until 1952 AD. It was called Friedhofsbahn or the cemetery line, and there was a similar railway line in Finland.