Death Track by Sally Rigby

Author:Sally Rigby [Rigby, Sally]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Top Drawer Press
Published: 2019-09-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Monday, 17 June

George shivered. Despite it being June, it was still cold first thing in the morning. They’d spent the last few days looking through train timetables and trains, and had come up with a list of possibilities for where the next murder could take place. Officers had been deployed on all the trains, and George, Whitney, and Terry were positioned at Lenchester station in order to go through every train that came through before allowing the passengers to leave. Whitney, who’d managed to curtail her annoyance at the Regional Force officers, had also arranged for the British Transport Police to patrol the platforms on each of the routes. That meant the team could be utilised more effectively on the actual trains.

George walked into the station building where Whitney and Terry were standing. The first train they were going to inspect was due in fifteen minutes.

‘Right, let’s get ourselves in position,’ Whitney said once George had reached them. ‘Just to recap, we’ve identified five possible trains. Two are arriving shortly, one later in the morning, and another two this afternoon.’

‘Do they know not to let the passengers off?’ George asked.

‘Yes. The drivers have been instructed to keep the doors locked until we give permission for them to be opened.’

‘That makes our lives easier,’ George said.

‘As long as they do as they’ve been told,’ Terry said.

‘They should do,’ Whitney said. ‘The first train is coming from Birmingham and stops at platform three, so we’ll need to go over the bridge. Doug and a uniformed officer have been on there for the entire journey.’

They walked over and waited for the train. Once it arrived, they boarded through the cab, where the driver was seated, and walked into the train from there. Doug was at the entrance of the first carriage, waiting for them.

‘Everything’s all clear, guv,’ he said. ‘We continually patrolled the carriages, making a note of all the passengers. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.’

‘Good. We’ll walk through and make sure everyone’s still alive, and then we’ll let them off.’

They went from carriage to carriage and, as Doug had said, all the passengers seemed alert. Several of them were waiting for the doors to open.

‘Why can’t we get out?’ one of the female passengers asked.

Whitney held out her warrant card. ‘Once we’ve checked the train, you’ll be free to go.’

‘Has there been another murder?’

‘We’re just undertaking a routine inspection,’ Whitney said.

‘I’m going to be late for work,’ the woman said.

‘Well, the sooner you let me continue, the sooner you’ll be able to get off the train.’

Once they’d reached and checked the last carriage, Whitney used her radio to contact the officer she’d left with the driver. ‘Okay, open the doors,’ she said.

The doors opened and the passengers, of which there were only around twenty, got off.

‘We’ll stay here, as the next train on our list is due in ten minutes, coming from Leeds and terminating at this station. It then becomes the fast train to London,’ Whitney said as they all stepped onto the platform.

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