Railway Murders

It was the first ever murder on the British railway, the body of wealthy banker Thomas Briggs is found on the tracks between Bow and Hackney Wick stations in London. (S1 Ep3)

Detective Sergeant Robert Kidd was the first railway police officer murdered in the line of duty in 1895, while investigating a spate of thefts from goods wagons at Wigan railway station. (S1 Ep6)

In 1910, the city of Newcastle becomes transfixed by the trial of John Alexander Dickman, accused of murdering John Innes Nisbet, a clerk from Heaton who had been carrying miners' pay. (S1 Ep5)

Jimmy Alcott, a troubled young man who, in 1952, staked out a railway station and plotted a theft that would end in the murder of Geoffrey Charles Dean, a clerk at Ash Vale railway station. (S1 Ep4)