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  1. 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 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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 a British train in 1855.

  4. Aug 8, 2013 · Fifty years on what quickly became known as The Great Train Robbery still occupies a unique place in the history of British crime. Click on the images to find out how it happened.

  5. The Great Train Robbery was a £2.6 million train robbery that took place on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, Buckinghamshire. The gang was led by Bruce Reynolds (1931–2013).

  6. Aug 20, 2013 · Peter Guttridge, crime novelist and critic was commissioned by the National Archives in 2008 to write a short account of the August 1963 Great Train Robbery, ‘the heist of the century’, using...

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  8. The scene of the Great Train Robbery: the largest train heist in Britain's history. Evening Standard/Getty Images. There was nothing remarkable about the train traveling from Glasgow. The 12 cars powered by a single diesel locomotive made up a mobile post office known as the Up Special.

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