On track to clear burial site

London – Tucked beside one of London’s busiest railway stations, a small army of archaeologists dig through clay as they clear a burial site of 40 000 bodies to make way for a new train line.

They have already unearthed the first 1 200 skeletons from St James Gardens, a park next to the Euston terminal, which was a cemetery between 1788 and around 1853.

It is one of more than 60 archaeological sites found during the construction of a new highspeed rail link from London to Birmingham. –