London once ran a train for the dead, with first, second and third class coffinsLondon’s Railway for the Dead

After an 1850 act banned further burials in churchyards, a private company ran trains carrying London's dead out to Brookwood Cemetery.

London's churchyards were so crowded that gravediggers sometimes broke apart cadavers with choppers and pickaxes to fit more into one grave, and stripped old coffins for the handles and nails to resell.

When the 1850 Burials Act stopped churchyard burials, a private company trained the dead out to Brookwood Cemetery: coffins travelled first, second or third class, mourners rode separately, and the cemetery had its own stations for Anglicans and Non-Conformists.

One of the Bishop of London's objections was that the train mixed the upright and the immoral in death. What gets me is that even the dead were sorted by ticket class, in a city spooked by cholera. That is scarier than any ghost story.