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    The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.61 million (calculated to present-day value of £69 million - or $73,547,750), from a Royal Mail train heading...
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  • The Great Train Robbery may refer to: Great Train Robbery (1963), of £2.6 million from a British train Great Gold Robbery, of gold worth £12,000 from...
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  • distributed worldwide by Kew Media. It tells the story of the Great Train Robbery on 8 August 1963, first from the perspective of the robbers, and then from...
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  • was the driver of the train that was robbed in the Great Train Robbery in 1963. His Secondman was David Whitby. He boarded the train at the driver change-over...
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  • Train robbery is a type of robbery, in which the goal is to steal money or other valuables being carried by trains. Train robberies were common in the...
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  • Brian Field (category Great Train Robbery (1963))
    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...
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  • Tommy Butler (category Great Train Robbery (1963))
    notable for leading the team of detectives that investigated the Great Train Robbery in 1963. He never married and lived with his mother. Butler was arguably...
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  • Buster Edwards (category Great Train Robbery (1963))
    gang were involved in the Great Train Robbery in August 1963. The Great Train gang intercepted the Glasgow-London mail train in Buckinghamshire in the...
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  • – 23 April 1990) was an English career criminal. A member of the Great Train Robbery gang, of which he was treasurer, he was shot dead on the doorstep...
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  • Buster (film) (category Great Train Robbery (1963))
    1988 British romantic crime comedy-drama based on events from the Great Train Robbery, starring Phil Collins and Julie Walters. The supporting cast include...
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    Ronnie Biggs (category Great Train Robbery (1963))
    2013) was an English criminal who helped plan and carry out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He subsequently became notorious for his escape from prison...
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  • James Booth. The story is a heavily fictionalised version of the 1963 Great Train Robbery. The film was produced by Stanley Baker and Michael Deeley, for...
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  • Jack Slipper (category Great Train Robbery (1963))
    Yard). He was mainly known for his role in investigating the Great Train Robbery of 1963, and in tracking down Ronnie Biggs after he escaped from prison...
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  • 2023). Eastcastle Street robbery, 1952; Eastcastle Street, London. £287,000 (£10.4 million in 2023). Great Train Robbery, 1963; Mentmore, Buckinghamshire...
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    Bruce Reynolds (category Great Train Robbers)
    an English criminal who masterminded the 1963 Great Train Robbery. At the time it was Britain's largest robbery, netting £2,631,684, equivalent to £69 million...
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    Terence Hogan (category British people convicted of robbery)
    following a short time later, was believed to be tied to the Great Train Robbery (1963) under his alias Harry Booth. Terry Hogan was born in 1931 and grew...
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  • the History of Crime, Policing and Justice, Part 3 1951-1975: Great Train Robbery 1963 Notable people who live or have lived in the local area: Eric Clapton...
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    British Rail Class 40 (category Standard gauge locomotives of Great Britain)
    some drivers being reluctant to drive it. In 1963 it was involved in the infamous "Great Train Robbery", and a year later in August 1964 a secondman...
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  • The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery is a British comedy film, directed by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, written by Sidney and Leslie Gilliat, and...
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    Ledburn (category Great Train Robbery (1963))
    so-called Great Train Robbery, in which a £2.6 million train robbery was committed at Bridego Railway Bridge (Bridge Number 127) on 8 August 1963. "Pressure...
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  • Malcolm Fewtrell (category Great Train Robbery (1963))
    Buckinghamshire CID. He led the initial investigation into the Great Train Robbery in 1963. Fewtrell was born in Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, where his father...
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  • is based upon the actual Great Train Robbery that took place on the 8 August 1963. Although based on the Great Train Robbery, the board game has been...
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    many years Ecclestone was rumoured to have been involved in the Great Train Robbery (1963). In a 2014 interview Ecclestone claimed that this rumour arose...
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    weapons during cash-in-transit operations. Chandler's Ford shooting Great Train Robbery (1963) "Securitas Cash Handling Services announces new international...
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  • the Interstate Commerce Commission. August 8 - Great Train Robbery (1963) £2.6 million train robbery. (£68.8 million in 2023 adjusted for inflation)...
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    political activist Bruce Reynolds, criminal, mastermind of the Great Train Robbery (1963) Ralph Richardson, actor George Richmond, painter and portraitist...
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    Oakley, Buckinghamshire (category Great Train Robbery (1963))
    Oakley, was used as a hideout by the criminal gang involved in the Great Train Robbery. The parish is in the west of Buckinghamshire, adjoining the boundary...
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    also received international publicity in 1963 when the culprits responsible for the Great Train Robbery (1963) were tried at Aylesbury Rural District Council...
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  • Biggs in Rio, where he would tell them how his gang conducted the Great Train Robbery (1963), during which they stole £2.6 million. Oloff is the father of...
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  • Deal" or "The Soviet Wheat Deal". The term Great Grain Robbery is a pun referring to the 1963 Great Train Robbery and it is generally accepted that it was...
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