Inspector Tanner and the London Metropolitan Police are faced with a difficult predicament. It has come to light that the man of most interest in the murder of Thomas Briggs, the first person to be murdered on British rail, has left British shores and that now they must give chase. 

Discover London in the 1860s, the streets, the docks and wharfs and its people in Murder on the Tracks to true story of the first murder on British railway and the incredible story that followed. This is episode 3 the chase. 

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