Complex sentence: It aimed to use the recently-developed technology of the railway to move as many burials to the newly-built Brookwood Cemetery in Brookwood, Surrey, within easy travelling distance of London but distant enough that the dead could not contribute to the spread of disease.
Split into simpler sentences: It aimed to use the recently-developed technology of the railway to move as many burials as possible to the newly-built Brookwood Cemetery in Brookwood, Surrey. This location was within easy travelling distance of London but distant enough that the dead could not contribute to the spread of disease.