CLASSIC: London Made a Train for the Dead

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In the mid-19th century, London was literally filling with corpses. When the city was in the grips of a cholera epidemic, the already-overfilled cemetaries couldn't handle the extra bodies. So when there's literally no room in the soil for another dead body, what's a city to do? To the creators of the London Necropolis Railway, the answer was simple -- build a train for the dead. Tune in to learn some grisly, ridiculous history with Ben and Noel.

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