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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.
Aug 8, 2013 · The Great Train Robbery: How it happened. Just after 3am on 8 August, 1963 the night mail train from Glasgow Central to London Euston was stopped in Buckinghamshire by a gang of thieves.
Feb 26, 2022 · Almost 60 years on from the Great Train Robbery, BuckinghamshireLive has looked into what happened to the gang of robbers after the heist. Between all of them, the notorious gang received a total of 307 years imprisonment, according to British Transport Police.
Feb 28, 2013 · Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs has died aged 84, but who were his fellow gang members and what happened to them?
Great Train Robbery, (August 8, 1963), in British history, the armed robbery of £2,600,000 (mostly in used bank notes) from the Glasgow–London Royal Mail Train, near Bridego Bridge north of London. The 15 holdup men, wearing helmets, ski masks, and gloves, were aided by two accomplices—an anonymous.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Late on Thursday 8 August 1963, a Travelling Post Office train left Glasgow for Euston. On board, staff sorted the mail and parcels prior to its arrival in London. The second carriage from the front of the train was a High Value Package carriage, where registered mail was sorted.
Aug 12, 2019 · The Great Train Robbery was the theft of £2.6 million 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...
