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Blood on the Tracks [Repost]

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Blood on the Tracks [Repost]

Blood on the Tracks: A History of Railway Crime in Britain by Alan Brooke
English | 3 May 2010 | ISBN: 0752452312 | 272 Pages | EPUB | 5 MB

Between 1835 and the 1850s, railway mania blossomed around Britain. Crime emerged as the railways developed, at first opportunistic crimes such as fare evasion and robberies, but gradually more inventive forms evolved, notably the minor clerk Redpath in the 1850s, whose shameless cooking of the books to live the high life exposed the lack of any kind of accountancy across the railway industry.