Railway Murders

In 1864, the body of wealthy banker Thomas Briggs is found on the tracks between Bow and Hackney Wick stations in London -- the first murder on a British railway.

In 1881, young writer Percy Lefroy Mapleton becomes fixated on a stage actress and is driven to a violent crime.

In 1997, nine years after John Duffy has been sentenced to life for murder and rape, he breaks his silence.

In 1910, the city of Newcastle becomes transfixed by the murder trial of John Alexander Dickman, accused of murdering a train clerk and stealing his wages.

The story of Jimmy Alcott, a troubled young man who, in 1952, staked out a railway station and plotted a theft that would end in murder.

The unsolved mystery of an elderly Polish countess travelling home from a party who was stabbed to death at Gloucester Road tube station in May 1957.