"Peter Lawrence" wrote in message
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From Sunday Times article on the CTRL at St Pancras: ' Just as the
Midland had ploughed up corpses to build its tracks, so the new work
unearthed further remains. In fact, no fewer than 7,000 bodies came
out of the ground just north of the station.'

Were there really so many bodies found? When I asked a CTRL lecturer
last year whether any bodies had been unearthed the answer was ' yes,
a few'. I wonder which report is accurate.

The Sunday Times article is ambiguous - I think the 7000 is meant to refer
to the original construcion of the Midland Railway, but it could be read to
refer to the CTRL.

Another 19th century railway where a graveyard was disturbed was the Charing
Cross extension of the SER, where at least 7950 bodies were removed from the
College Burial Ground of the parish of St Mary's, Lambeth, and reburied in
Woking (presumably Brookwood) cemetery.

Peter