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.

Shedding light on the first time a railway police officer was murdered in the line of duty.

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 traveling home from a party who was stabbed to death at Gloucester Road tube station in May 1957.