Ye Olde Crime

Railway Madness: Victorian Train Crimes


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Lindsay and Madison discuss Railway Madness, as well as how men seemed to lose their minds while riding trains in Victorian England, that locking people into their train car isn’t a great idea, and how important it is to install safety measures right away instead of decades later.

Information pulled from the following sources:

  • 2018 Ian Visits article by Ian Mansfield
  • 2017 Atlas Obscura article by Joseph Hayes
  • 2017 Railway Museum blog post by Karen Baker
  • 2016 Journal of Victorian Culture article by Amy Milne-Smith
  • 2011 BBC article by Bruce Robinson
  • The National Archives
  • Worldwide Rails article by Josef

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