High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The London Necropolis Railway was a railway line opened in November 1854 by the London Necropolis Company (LNC), to carry cadavers and mourners between London and the LNC`s newly opened Brookwood Cemetery 23 miles (37 km) southwest of London in Brookwood, Surrey. At the time the largest cemetery in the world, Brookwood Cemetery was designed to be large enough to accommodate all the deaths in London for centuries to come, and the LNC hoped to gain a monopoly on London`s burial industry. The cemetery had intentionally been built far enough from London so as never to be affected by urban growth, and was dependent on the recently invented railway to connect it to the city.