Quick question about Buck's Row

[SirJohnFalstaff]

Thanks for the pictures. It's clearer now.

And thank you DrStrange for the precision about police research.

[drstrange169]

Police considered the idea at the time. They looked for marks on the wall to see if somebody had scaled it. They also checked the railway line for signs of someone escaping that way.

Doesn't mean the killer did not escape that way, just that they found no evidence of it.

[Yabs]

another image from a different angle.

Funny you should mention trains, are there any archives of train times in the area for 1888 or thereabouts?
I google searched for this the other day without success

[Joshua Rogan]

Good question, I've often wondered that too.
If the railway tracks that ran below were in a cutting with sloped sides, it might have been possible, but from what I can tell, it is more or less a vertical drop now. Not sure about in 1888 though. Here is a Google Streetview snap from the road in front of the murder site.

[SirJohnFalstaff]

Trying to understand the geography of the place.

If I understand the map correctly, a few meters East from where poor Polly was found, is some kind of overpass, right?

How dangerous would it be to jump on the tracks, as a way to escape the scene of the crime? (I'm not promoting the idea, again, just trying to understand the location.)

Thank you.
Hope everyone is having a lovely summer, except the Aussies, because, well, it's not.