S01E01 The First Railway Murderer
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.
Railway Murders
S01E04: The Newcastle Train Murder
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).
Overview
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.
Episodes
S01E02 The Body In The Tunnel
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.
S01E03 The Police Killer
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...
S01E04 The Newcastle Train Murder
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...
S01E05 The Guardsman
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...
S01E06 Death on the Underground
The murder of 73-year-old Polish aristocrat Countess Teresa Lubienska on the eastbound Piccadilly line platform of Gloucester Road Underground station. The Countess was stabbed the evening of 24th May 1957, dying in hospital on the...
Cast
Alan Moss
Self. Contributor
Judith Rowbotham
Self. Contributor
Matthew Green
Self. Contributor
Andrzej Suchcitz
Self. Contributor
Nicholas Day
Self. Presenter
Donald Rumbelow
Self. Contributor
