Railway Murders Episode Rating Graph
May 2021 - present
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Investigating the most notorious murders ever to take place on the British railways. The cases start from 1864 with the the first murder on a British railway.
Best Episodes of Railway Murders
The Newcastle Train Murder
S1 Ep4
2nd May 2021
The murder on 18th March 1910 of John Innes Nisbet, a colliery clerk from Heaton who had been carrying miners' pay for Stobswood Colliery. John Alexander Dickman was hanged for the crime, (the last man hanged in a Newcastle jail).
The Police Killer
S1 Ep3
2nd May 2021
The first time a railway police officer was murdered in the line of duty. 37-year-old Detective Sergeant Robert Kidd was murdered in Sepember 1895, while investigating a spate of thefts from goods wagons in a yard at Wigan railway station.
Worst Episodes of Railway Murders
The First Railway Murderer
S1 Ep1
2nd May 2021
The first ever murder on a British train. 70-year-old Thomas Briggs was murdered on the 9.45pm train from Fenchurch Street to Hackney Wick on 9 July 1864 by Franz Muller.
The Guardsman
S1 Ep5
2nd May 2021
The murder of 28-year-old Geoffrey Charles Dean, a booking clerk at Ash Vale railway station. The murderer was 23-year-old John James Alcott, a railway fireman from Hither Green Depot, who stole £160 from the railway booking office.
Railway Murders Episode Guide
The First Railway Murderer
S1 Ep1
2nd May 2021
The first ever murder on a British train. 70-year-old Thomas Briggs was murdered on the 9.45pm train from Fenchurch Street to Hackney Wick on 9 July 1864 by Franz Muller.
The Body In The Tunnel
S1 Ep2
2nd May 2021
The murder of coin dealer 64-year-old Isaac Frederick Gold on the 2.00pm express train travelling from London Bridge to Brighton on 27 June 1881 by 22-year-old Percy LeFroy Mapleton.
The Police Killer
S1 Ep3
2nd May 2021
The first time a railway police officer was murdered in the line of duty. 37-year-old Detective Sergeant Robert Kidd was murdered in Sepember 1895, while investigating a spate of thefts from goods wagons in a yard at Wigan railway station.
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