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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.
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 ...
Edwards spent nine years in prison. [2] After his early release in 1975, he ran a flower stall outside Waterloo station in London. [2] He gave interviews to writer Piers Paul Read, persuading him to write in his 1978 book The Train Robbers that the robbery was led by German commando Otto Skorzeny, and that Edwards was the person responsible for hitting Jack Mills.
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]
It tells the story of the aftermath of the robbery from Williams point of view. The Train Robbers (1978) by Piers Paul Read and first published by W.H. Allen and Company (ISBN 0-397-01283-7). This book recounts a very detailed version of the story based on an exclusive account given by eight of the then-paroled robbers (Edwards, Goody, Hussey ...
Brian Arthur Field (15 December 1934 – 27 April 1979) was an English solicitor's clerk who was one of the masterminds of the 1963 Great Train Robbery.He was the crucial link between the key informant known only as "Ulsterman" (who came up with the idea of robbing the money-laden night mail train and also provided the details of the schedule and contents of the trains) with the actual gang ...
[26] [27] Robbers disarmed the security guard and opened more than 400 safety deposit boxes. They took at least €32 million in gold, precious stones and cash. In March 2012 two robbers were arrested. One of them was a security guard at the bank. [28] The court process against two robbers started [29] in November 2013.
Masterminded the 1963 Great Train Robbery. [22] [23] At the time it was Britain's largest robbery, netting £2,631,684, [24] equivalent to £69 million today. [25] Reynolds spent five years on the run before being sentenced to 25 years in 1969. He was released in 1978.