7.4/1016 votes#1 - The First Railway Murderer
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/2/2021
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.
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7.1/1012 votes#2 - The Body In The Tunnel
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/2/2021
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.
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8.0/1010 votes#3 - The Police Killer
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/2/2021
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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8.1/1010 votes#4 - The Newcastle Train Murder
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/2/2021
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).
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7.8/1010 votes#5 - The Guardsman
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/2/2021
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.
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8.0/1012 votes#6 - Death on the Underground
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/2/2021
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.
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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...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The First Railway Murderer" is the best rated episode of "Railway Murders" season 1. It scored 7.4/10 based on 16 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/2/2021. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Body In The Tunnel".