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	Great Train Robbery (1963) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Train Robbery was the name given to a train robbery that was committed on August 8, 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
		Although no guns were used in the robbery, the train driver, Jack Mills, was struck on the head with an iron bar.
		The robbery was investigated by Detective Chief Superintendent Jack Slipper of the Metropolitan Police (widely known in the Press as "Slipper of the Yard"), who became so involved with its aftermath that he continued to hunt down many of the escaped robbers in retirement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Great_Train_Robbery_of_1963 (757 words)

	Train robbery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Train robbery was a type of robbery, where the first goal was to steal any money being delivered as cargo on trains.
		Trains carrying payroll shipments were for this reason a major target.
		If the outlaw was unsatisfied with the goods, passengers of the train's carriages who would be generally unarmed would be held at gunpoint and made to hand over any valuables they were carrying, usually in the form of jewelry or currency.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Train_robbery (254 words)

	ON THIS DAY \| 8 \| 1963: Train robbers make off with millions
		The Post Office train - known as the Up Special - had run every night, without interference, for 125 years until it was brought to a halt by a red light at 0315 GMT in Buckinghamshire.
		But most of the 75 mail sorters working on the train were unaware of the 20 minute incident as the thieves uncoupled the engine and front two carriages of the train and drove them up to Bridego Bridge a mile away.
		The total amount stolen was put at £2.6m in a heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/8/newsid_2714000/2714055.stm (484 words)

	The Biography Channel - The Great Train Robbery Biography
		The Great Train Robbery was the name given to the audacious robbery of The Royal Mailâs Glasgow to London traveling post office train on August 8, 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.
		However, the train driver, Jack Mills, was struck on the head with an iron bar during a struggle.
		The robbers were to board the train, disconnect the locomotive and the first two carriages from the rest and drive them to a safe location where the valuables could be transferred to waiting trucks.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/944:0/The_Great_Train_Robbery.htm (2359 words)

	BBC - Crime Case Closed - Great Train Robbery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The robbery was originally planned for June, but to take advantage of the extra money that a bank holiday would bring, they changed the date to August.
		In the grey light of morning, the train pulled to a stop at the false signals and a group of 'railway workers' appeared on the tracks wearing uniform blue overalls.
		The old man wasn't used to mail trains, so they couldn't get it to move and when they needed him most, their back-up man was no use at all.
	www.bbc.co.uk /crime/caseclosed/greattrainrobbery.shtml (1775 words)

	DVD Times - Great Train Robbery, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		However, his most unusual film is probably The Great Train Robbery, known in the UK as The First Great Train Robbery to avoid confusion with the 1963 heist conducted by Ronald Biggs et.al.
		Preparing the robbery involves stealing and copying four keys to the safe, a job which is carried out by Pierce, his accomplice Agar (Sutherland with the usual dodgy accent) and his mistress Mildred (Down).
		The cruelty of some of the violence strikes a sour note, however faithful to the historical context, and it should also be pointed out that the sexual politics of the film are anachronistic, with Mildred's character being totally out of place for the society in which she is so readily accepted as "one of us".
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=3942 (1068 words)

	Great Train Robbery Detective Dies - CBS News
		He came to public attention for his role in the "Great Train Robbery" of 1963, one of Britain's largest and most audacious heists and a crime that still fascinates the country.
		The train's driver, Jack Mills, was hit over the head during the robbery.
		The Metropolitan Police said that despite his high-profile association with the train robbery, Slipper had gained the most satisfaction from bringing to justice the killers of three London policemen in 1966.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/08/25/world/main794522.shtml (563 words)

	Force museum \| Great Train Robbery
		The Great Train Robbery was the most famous heist of an era that made celebrities of some criminals, and drew much attention to the work undertaken by the Buckinghamshire Constabulary and other police forces to track them down.
		The robbery’s mastermind, Bruce Reynolds, was a known criminal.
		Taking his inspiration from the rail robberies of the American West, and using inside information on the movement of valuables, he assembled a gang to raid a diesel-hauled Royal Mail Travelling Post Office during its journey from Glasgow to London.
	www.thamesvalley.police.uk /news_info/info/museum/great-train-rob.htm (210 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Beds/Bucks/Herts \| Talk marks Great Train Robbery
		The mastermind behind the Great Train Robbery will mark the 40th anniversary of the heist by returning to the scene of the crime.
		The train appeared shortly after 0300 BST and stopped at a set of signals the gang had switched.
		The train was driven a mile-and-a-half to Bridego Bridge and the gang unloaded a total of £2.6m in used notes, which would be worth around £40m today.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/3133687.stm (742 words)

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		In 1963 Mr.Gerald Green was one of the first on the scene after the Great Train Robbery in which an armed gang stole more than £2.5 million from a Glasgow to London mail train.
		Green was driving a parcel train from Rugby, when approaching Leighton Buzzard, he spotted the raided train stationary ahead on the tracks.
		Mr.Green drove the train to Cheddington and raised the alarm.
	www.asmallpieceofhistory.co.uk /commended2.php?page=&theid=theid&subid=34 (83 words)

	Class 40 Preservation Society CFPS - the Class 40 story part 2
		On 8th August 1963 it was hauling the overnight West Coast Postal and became involved with the 'Great Train Robbery'.
		Class 40's became the preferred locos for use with the Royal Train from the late 1960's until 1977, when the train was replaced with an air conditioned set requiring electric train heating.
		By the early 1980's, very few passenger trains were still booked for Class 40 haulage, but they still maintained their annual stranglehold on summer holiday trains to various locations, and other relief workings and excursions.
	www.cfps.co.uk /40story2.htm (1293 words)

	Jack Slipper; 'Great Train Robbery' made gumshoe famous \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Jack Slipper, the Scotland Yard detective who pursued one of the fugitives from Britain's "Great Train Robbery" across many years and two continents, died Wednesday at the age of 81.
		The retired detective chief superintendent was known as "Slipper of the Yard." He came to public attention for his role in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, one of Britain's largest and most audacious heists and a crime that still fascinates the country.
		The Metropolitan Police said that despite his high-profile association with the train robbery, Mr.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050828/news_mz1e28lawles.html (418 words)

	W&H MAIN YARDS: List of Railway Movies
		Trains or tracks or subways or stations, or railway construction or railway employees, will be in the movie generally for at least 1/3 to 1/2 of its length, and usually more than that.
		It is not a list of realistic movies about trains; I'm not qualified to evaluate all the technical details, but I can certainly say that many of the films have serious flaws in their depiction of railways.
		The Great Train Robbery (West Germany, 1967) B104m; T version, 240m; [The Great British Train Robbery; Die Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse; Der grosse Postraub], Horst Tappert, Hans Cossy 56.
	www.spikesys.com /Trains/rly_movs.html (3401 words)

	'Great Train Robbery' Fugitive Wants To Return To UK, Face Charges
		Train driver Jack Mills, 57, was coshed with iron bars during the robbery.
		Biggs was caught soon after the robbery and tried in January 1964, but escaped from jail after only 15 months by using a rope ladder to scale a wall and jumping down on to a mattress on a van.
		He said in an interview with The Sun newspaper that he now hoped to rely on the mercy of the court system because of his age and failing health and the time elapsed since his crime.
	www.rense.com /general10/face.htm (599 words)

	Great train robber returns home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		By Renzo Gostoli, AP Convicted British train robber Ronnie Biggs plays the tambourine with the Banda da Barra samba school during Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in February 1994.
		Most of Biggs' share of the loot from the robbery was spent on his escape, plastic surgery to change his appearance and years of high life in Rio.
		During the robbery, train engineer Jack Mills was bashed over the head with an ax handle and never fully recovered — the only aspect of the crime about which Biggs ever expressed any public remorse.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001-05-07-trainrobber.htm (756 words)

	PAW April 7, 2004: Perspective
		A couple of men were planted on the train with the women.
		The train robbery on that spring afternoon would never be tolerated today.
		In the simpler life of 1963, a well-executed prank was a tour de force, a source of admiration and campus awe, a way of tweaking the nose of staid tradition and yet staying within it.
	www.princeton.edu /~paw/archive_new/PAW03-04/12-0407/perspective.html (837 words)

	The Great Train Robbery
		The Royal Mail train on its way to London was robbed of two and a half million pounds.
		At the time of the Great Train Robbery on August 8 1963 I was on the run then about the incident with Harry Rogers.
		Although the robbery was well planned and executed the events afterwards were slapdash to say the least.
	www.madfrankiefraser.co.uk /story/wouldbe.htm (1285 words)

	Movie Info for The Great Train Robbery on MSN Movies
		Not a remake of the landmark 1903 Edwin S. Porter film, The Great Train Robbery is a dramatization of the famous first hold-up of a moving train in 1855 England.
		When released in England, this film was titled The First Great Train Robbery, so as not to be confused with Britain's embarrassing 1963 railroad heist.
		Filmed in Ireland, The Great Train Robbery was dedicated to the memory of its director of photography, Geoffrey Unsworth, who died shortly after the production wrapped.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=109532 (214 words)

	Welcome to Greenleas Rail History - BR
		The train was a mail train, it carried no fare paying passengers.
		The two most important carriages on the train were behind the diesel engine.
		It contained all the most valuable items on the train - registered mail, parcels and lots of money; (there were more valuables than usual in the coach because there had been a bank holiday in Scotland that week).
	clutch.open.ac.uk /schools/greenleas-rail01/BRrobb.html (177 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Great Train Robbery, by John Gosling and Dennis Craig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		"The Great Train Robbery" is much too hastily put together to do justice to one of the greatest capers of all time, if it is to be judged by haul alone--more than seven million dollars, taken from a British mail train on August 8, 1963.
		...The Great Train Robbery by John Gosling and Dennis Craig never takes us inside the caper the way The Men Who Robbed Brinks by O'Keefe and Bob Considine does, nor is it as detailed, clear, or complete...
		...In fact, The Great Train Robbery is much too hastily put together to do justice to one of the greatest capers of all time, if it is to be judged by haul alone-more than seven million dollars, taken from a British mail train on August 8, 1963...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V40I1P96-1.htm (1511 words)

	Jack Slipper, British detective
		LONDON - Jack Slipper, the Scotland Yard detective who pursued one of the fugitives from Britain's "Great Train Robbery" across many years and two continents, died Wednesday at the age of 81, police said.
		The retired detective chief superintendent came to public attention for his role in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, one of Britain's largest and most audacious heists.
		An armed gang held up the Glasgow-to-London mail train, stealing 125 sacks of banknotes worth 2.6 million pounds, valued at $7.3 million at the time, or $50 million today.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/local/articles/0826death26.html (311 words)

	The Great Train Robbery of 1963 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The New York Times of August 10th 1963 carried on its principal Foreign News page a map of England and Wales on which only two places were marked - London and Brill.
		The perpetrators of the so-called Great Train Robbery - the hold-up of the Glasgow-Euston mail train and theft of £2 and 1/2 million - used Leatherslade Farm in the parish of Brill as their base.
		At least the robbers displayed, however unconsciously, a nice sense of historical continuity in selecting for their hideout what had been one of the densest coverts in the Royal Forest of Bernwood.
	www.brill.uk.net /brill/history/robbery.html (181 words)

	Bloomberg.com: U.K. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The ``Great Train Robbery'' in 1963 became one of the U.K.'s most notorious crimes.
		While Slipper is best remembered for his role in the Great Train Robbery investigation, it wasn't the case that gave him the most satisfaction, according to the police.
		Slipper was its operational chief when it was officially known as the robbery squad, and established the current flying squad model for investigations of robberies, according to today's statement.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=a9aFfQORr4IE&refer=uk (688 words)

	ABC News: Scotland Yard Detective Jack Slipper Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Famous for his role in the investigation of the Great Train Robbery, the retired Detective Chief Superintendent died Wednesday Aug. 24, 2005, aged 81, following a long illness, police said.
		He spent a large part of his career trying to get escaped Great Train robber, Ronald Biggs back to prison and travelled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he arrested him in 1974.
		An armed gang held up the Glasgow-to-London mail train, stealing 125 sacks of banknotes worth 2.6 million pounds valued at $7.3 million at the time, or more than $50 million today.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1064319 (502 words)

	The Detective Jack Slipper, 81, of Great Train Robbery Fame, Dies - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Detective Jack Slipper, 81, of Great Train Robbery Fame, Dies
		Known as Slipper of the Yard, he came to public attention for his role in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, one of Britain's largest and most audacious robberies and a crime that still fascinates the country.
		The Metropolitan Police said that despite his high-profile association with the train robbery, Detective Slipper, who retired as detective chief superintendent, had gained the most satisfaction from bringing to justice the killers of three London policemen in 1966.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/08/25/international/europe/25slipper.html?ex=1282622400&en=53fe7f8933fac16c&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (498 words)

	FTR-83 The Great Mail Train Robbery (Two 30-minute segments) $8
		In August of 1963, a gang of robbers held up a British mail train and escaped with millions of dollars.
		It was one of the largest hauls from a robbery in history.
		It appears that the gang that committed the robbery had considerable assistance in the commission of the crime from SS Colonel and ODESSA leader Otto Skorzeny and his organization.
	www.spitfirelist.com /f083.html (175 words)

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