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Blood on the Tracks

Blood on the Tracks

A History of Railway Crime in Britain

by Alan Brooke and David Brandon
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/05/2017

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Blood on the Tracks provides a murky and intriguing account of criminal activity on Britain's railways, from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century right up to the present day.

Covering all varieties of crime, from the opportunistic such as fare evasion and robberies, through the more inventive including murders, suicide on the line and railway staff `cooking the books', to more recent terrorist attacks, the changing nature of criminal activity on the railways can be traced through time.

This fascinating book also covers the appearance of railway crime in film and literature, including the work of Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as the advent of the railways indeed provided a new range of locations in which to set deceitful deeds - waiting rooms, carriages and tunnels to name just a few.

ISBN:
9780750982696
9780750982696
Category:
Trains & railways: general interest
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-05-2017
Publisher:
The History Press Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
234x156mm
David Brandon

David Brandon was educated at Manchester University and worked in Adult Education at Further Education Colleges and Universities and later for a major national trade union. Researching and writing since 1997 he has had forty titles published of which he regards the 'flagship' to be a collaborative work published by the National Archives, using their resources to examine the transportation of felons to Australia and other penal colonies. His publications reflect his wide interests which include railways, political and social history, London history, topography, local history and the history of crime.

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