Raped on the Railway: a True Story of a Lady who was first ravished and then flagellated on the Scotch Express is an anonymous English pornographic story published in 1894[1][2][3][4][5] by Charles Carrington[6] under the imprint "Society of Bibliophiles"[7] or "Cosmopolitan Bibliophile Society".
[8] The victim, a married woman, is raped by a stranger in a locked railway compartment and, in a trope common in later Victorian pornography,[4] is depicted as ultimately taking pleasure in the act:[8][9] she is then flagellated by her brother-in-law for the latter transgression.
The passage of the train through dark tunnels adds another frisson to the possibility of erotic adventure on the rails.
[11] The plot may also have been inspired by the real-life case of Colonel Valentine Baker, who was convicted of an indecent assault on a young woman in a railway carriage in 1875.
[12] An American adaptation, or plagiarism, was published in New York City under the title Raped on the Elevated Railway, a True Story of a Lady who was First Ravished and then Flagellated on the Uptown Express, illustrating the Perils of Travel in the New Machine Age[7][10][13][14] set in New York.