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Railway Murders

Railway Murders

★ 8.0/10•2021•44m•TV-PG•Documentary•Crime
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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.

William Simpson · Director

StatusReturning Series
Runtime44m
LanguageEN
First Air DateMay 2, 2021

Episodes

Episode 1 - The First Railway MurdererE144m

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.

May 2, 2021

Episode 2 - The Body In The TunnelE244m

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.

May 2, 2021

Episode 3 - The Police KillerE344m

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 yard at Wigan railway station.

May 2, 2021

Episode 4 - The Newcastle Train MurderE444m

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).

May 2, 2021

Episode 5 - The GuardsmanE544m

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 booking office.

May 2, 2021

Episode 6 - Death on the UndergroundE644m

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 25th.

May 2, 2021

Actors

Alan Moss

Self. Contributor

Judith Rowbotham

Self. Contributor

Matthew Green

Self. Contributor

Andrzej Suchcitz

Self. Contributor

Nicholas Day

Nicholas Day

Self. Presenter

Donald Rumbelow

Self. Contributor

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