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“You won’t believe this, but they’ve stolen a train.”

That was the special announcement heard on police radios in the early hours of August 8, 1963, after a gang of criminals pulled off one of, if not the most infamous heist in British history. They robbed a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London and made off with 120 mailbags containing £2.6 million (which is around £60 million in today’s money). Nobody was killed, although the train driver received a serious cosh on the noggin.

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Further Reading:
https://archive.org/details/greattrainrobber0000haug/page/40/mode/2up?view=theater
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/great-train-robbery-identity-of-the-ulsterman-who-gave-key-info-to-robbers/a1256736643.html
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/04/great-train-robbery-mystery-fixer
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/29/great-train-robbery-gordon-goody-dies-aged-86
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bruce-reynolds-criminal-known-as-napoleon-who-led-the-great-train-robbers-8515682.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-10209584
https://web.archive.org/web/20141230132136/http:/www.nottinghampost.com/day-crime-gang-stopped-train-shocked-world/story-19620002-detail/story.html
https://archive.org/details/greatbritishtrai0000unse/page/14/mode/2up?view=theater
https://archive.org/details/greattrainrobber0000hill/page/6/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater
https://web.archive.org/web/20141230132136/http:/www.nottinghampost.com/day-crime-gang-stopped-train-shocked-world/story-19620002-detail/story.html
https://archive.org/details/greattrainrobber0000hill/page/6/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater

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