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The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.61 million [2] (worth £69 million today) 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 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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. English criminal (1929–2013) Ronnie Biggs Buckinghamshire Constabulary mug-shot, 1964 Born Ronald Arthur Biggs (1929-08-08) 8 August 1929 Stockwell, London, England Died 18 December 2013 (2013-12-18) (aged 84) Barnet, London, England Occupation Carpenter Known for Great Train Robbery of ...
Bruce Richard Reynolds (7 September 1931 [2] – 28 February 2013) [3] was an English criminal who masterminded the 1963 Great Train Robbery. [4] At the time it was Britain's largest robbery, netting £2,631,684, [5] equivalent to £70 million today. [6]
The history of the robbery can be found in The First Great Train Robbery, written by David C. Hanrahan in 2011. [83] In the May 1955 issue of The Railway Magazine the railway historian Michael Robbins wrote an article on the robbery; [ 84 ] in November 1980 the Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society carried an account written by ...
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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.
The first movie to depict a train robbery was the 1903 silent film The Great Train Robbery, produced by Edison Studios. This 11-minute film depicts a gang of outlaws who rob a train, only to later be hunted down by vigilantes and killed in a shootout. The Great Train Robbery is credited with popularizing and setting a narrative standard for the ...