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The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.61 million [2] (calculated to present-day value of £69 million - or $73,547,750) from a Royal Mail train travelling from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.
The largest UK heist on record in terms of the amount stolen was the 1990 City bonds robbery, when a courier carrying 301 bearer bonds worth £291.9 million (equivalent to £840 million in 2023) [4] was robbed on a small City of London street. All but two of the certificates were subsequently recovered, with the heist revealing the global ...
The First Great Train Robbery (known in the United States as The Great Train Robbery) is a 1978 British heist comedy film directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay based on his 1975 novel The Great Train Robbery. The film stars Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down.
In the final railway scene where the girls 'return' the money the British Railways station at Liss can be seen in the background. The locomotives used were: Longmoor Military Railway WD Austerity 2-10-0 AD601 'Kitchener' as the express locomotive in mock-up green livery and carrying a fake BR-pattern numberplate on the smokebox door until its ...
Contemporary news illustration of Agar and Burgess in the guard's van, emptying the safes of the gold. The Great Gold Robbery took place on the night of 15 May 1855, when a routine shipment of three boxes of gold bullion and coins was stolen from the guard's van of the service between London Bridge station and Folkestone while it was being shipped to Paris.
The 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project is uncovering details of British and Irish staff accidents before 1939 and making them freely available, via a database of transcriptions of staff accident investigations and other related records. At March 2023, the database documented nearly 50,000 individuals. [381]
The Great Train Robbery is a two-part British television miniseries, [1] written by Chris Chibnall, that was first broadcast on BBC One on 18 and 19 December 2013. The series is distributed worldwide by Kew Media.
Egypt established its Railway Police force in 1893, and this, combined with new advances in security and forensic technology led to the gradual decrease of train robberies after 1904. [ 24 ] Train Robbers' Bridge in Buckinghamshire, England, site of the 1963 Great Train Robbery