The first ever murder on a British train. 70-year-old Thomas Briggs was murde...
Railway Murders
Season 1 Episode 5: 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.