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A man was filmed on CCTV in a barbers' shop in Peterborough on Friday
A man accused of stabbing 10 people on a train is being linked with three other knife incidents, police have said.
Anthony Williams, 32, of no fixed abode, has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder over the mass stabbing which took place on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service while in Cambridgeshire on Saturday.
British Transport Police (BTP), which has taken the lead on the inquiry, said it was being linked with the stabbing of a 14-year-old boy in Peterborough on Friday evening.
Two incidents in which a man entered a barber shop in the city - on at least one occasion holding a knife - were also being linked.
BTP said it was also linking the stabbings on the rail service, which made an emergency stop in Huntingdon, with a fourth incident on a DLR train at Pontoon Dock in the early hours of Saturday.
Mr Williams has already been charged with an 11th count of attempted murder over that incident, after a 17-year-old person was stabbed on the train in east London.
Dep Ch Con Stuart Cundy said BTP was increasing visibility of police officers across the railway network to "reassure" both staff and the "travelling public".
BTP said a 14-year-old boy was reported to have been stabbed by a man on Henry Penn Walk in Peterborough city centre and was taken to hospital with minor injuries at about 19:10 GMT on Friday.
Cambridgeshire Police said the offender had left the scene at the time of the call and despite searches, the offender was not identified.
On the same evening, at about 19:25, police said a man with a knife entered a barbers' in Fletton in the city. The incident was reported two hours later.
The man was no longer at the scene so the force did not send officers, BTP said.
The following day, at about 09:25 on Saturday, the same barbers' reported a man had entered the shop while he was still at the scene.
Officers arrived within 18 minutes but he had left the scene.
