Railway Murders
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.


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.