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	The Great Train Robbery (1903)
		And the spectacle of the fireman (replaced by a dummy with a jump cut in scene four) being thrown off the moving train was a first in screen history.
		The desperadoes stealthily sneak on board the train (between the tender, the car attached to the steam locomotive that carries fuel and water, and the express mail car) just before it pulls away.
		The train passengers are forced to leave the coaches.
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	The Great Train Robbery circa 1998
		Ed Crawford, a leader of Hillsborough's train efforts, has said that "typical new four-lane roads" cost $15 million to $25 million a mile to build, compared with $5 million a mile for rail.
		Train promoters at one time quoted the anticipated number of daily trips as high as 71,000 – a ludicrous figure compared with even Dade County, where the population is more than double that of Hillsborough yet only about 45,000 to 50,000 trips a day are tallied.
		The number of automobile commuters who switched to light rail in Portland was less than 0.5 percent of daily commuters in the metropolitan area, a percentage quickly nullified by the rate of growth in employment, according to a study by the Cato Institute.
	www.hotpolitics.com /atrain2.html (2866 words)

	Great Train Robbery (1963) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Train Robbery was the name given to a £2.3 million train robbery committed on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.
		Although no guns were used in the robbery, the train driver, Jack Mills, was hit on the head with an iron bar, causing a fl eye and facial bruising.
		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 (906 words)

	The Great Train Robbery
		He backed to the end of the car, pulled the bell rope and, as the train was approaching Utica, the train slowed down and he unlocked the door, jumped off the platform and vanished in the darkness.
		The train was moving 40 miles an hour as Perry donned a red cloak and mask from the valise and armed himself with a pistol.
		As the train was passing through the town of Jordan, Perry climbed down the ladder until he could peer into the window of the car and see Daniel T. McInerney, an express messenger and a native of Rochester, seated in front of the company's open safe.
	www.cgazette.com /towns/Newark/history/912609649328.htm (1619 words)

	BBC - Crime Case Closed - Great Train Robbery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	Great Train Robbery Outside Verdi Nevada, November 5, 1870
		Just as the train was starting from a station, three masked men boarded the express car, and five more immediately came to their aid from the rear cars.
		After the train bad proceeded about half a mile east of Verdi, the men on the engine ordered the engineer to whistle "down brakes:' This was before the days of air-brakes and one short blast of the whistle brought the brakemen to the platforms, where they began the work of setting the brakes.
		When his train arrived at the scene of the robbery he found that the work of the robbers wa's finished and the engineer and fireman were busy removing the obstructions from the track.
	cprr.org /Museum/Robbery.html (4733 words)

	The Great Train Robbery
		A great example is the scene in which the gang set an explosive on the moving train (movement is shown by superimposing a fast moving image behind the train carriage stage set), just after killing the two guards.
		The Great Train Robbery is the film that established the Western, many of its scenes being eulogised in films in the genre up to the 1980s.
		The Great Train Robbery is often said to be the precursor to film-noir or thrillers.
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	The Great Train Robbery - Jerry Goldsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		His fictionalised version of the Great Train Robbery (or First Great Train Robbery as it is sometimes referred) turns a rather unglamorous crime into one of gentlemen thieves and daring escapes.
		For such a great Main Title, it appears on surprisingly few compilations and only due to Silva Screen's double disc of Goldsmith's music have most had the chance to hear it at all.
		The robbery itself takes up a surprisingly short time on disc, although evidently one cue - the strangely titled Dead Willy - was absent from the set of masters and would have contributed a little more action.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/greattrainrobbery.htm (466 words)

	The Jujube Spotlight - The Great Train Robbery
		That is to say, I might have really liked Michael Crichton's "The Great Train Robbery," which is based on the real-life story of a mid-nineteenth century British felon who attempted an astonishing score without the aid of explosives, guns, or computer gadgetry.
		Unfortunately, however, the film is missing one last ingredient necessary to a good yarn: in its infatuation with the mechanics of the crime, it fails to devote enough time to fleshing out the people who commit it, which precludes any lasting interest in the deed as a whole.
		I couldn't help but think about the recent remake of "Ocean's 11" while watching "The Great Train Robbery," because I felt that both crime capers had the makings of really good movies but didn't live up to their potential.
	archive.thejujube.com /G/greattrain.html (778 words)

	The Great Train Robbery (1903) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The clerk at the train station is assaulted and left tied by four men, then they rob the train threatening the operator...
		The Great Train Robbery was filmed only a couple of years into the 20th century, and when you watch it, its age is quite obvious.
		The Great Train Robbery is an extremely short film, but it is an interesting story that is made even more fascinating because of the fact that everything that happens on the screen happened nearly 100 years ago.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0000439 (463 words)

	Edison Motion Picture and Sound Recordings
		Two masked robbers enter and compel the operator to set the `signal block' to stop the approaching train, also making him write a fictitious order to the engineer to take water at this station....
		The bandit band are seen hiding behind the tank as a train stops to take water (according to false order).
		Just before she pulls out they stealthily board the train between the express car and the tender.
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	Great Train Robbery, The (1903) - Screenplays for You - free movie scripts and screenplays
		The train comes to a standstill (seen through window of office); the conductor comes to the window, and the frightened operator delivers the order while the bandits crouch out of sight, at the same time keeping him covered with their revolvers.
		The bandits are hiding behind the tank as the train, under the false order, stops to take water.
		The engineer leaves the locomotive, uncouples it from the train, and pulls ahead about 100 feet while the robbers hold their pistols to his face.
	www.sfy.ru /sfy.html?script=great_train_robbery_1903 (970 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)

	The Great Train Robbery
		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.
	www.findthefun.com /events/e0013897.htm (175 words)

	The Great Train Robbery (1903 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 western film.
		The Great Train Robbery Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 1Dec1903; H38748.
		Edison also made a parody of The Great Train Robbery (The Little Train Robbery (1905)) with an all-child cast in which a larger gang of bandits holds up a mini train and steal their dolls and candy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Great_Train_Robbery_(1903_film) (1145 words)

	The Great Saugus Train Robbery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After the robbery, which only netted $300, "Buffalo" Tom walked over the low ridge to Wood's Garage, where he hitched a ride down to L.A. with one Thomas Firth of Burbank.
		Vernon claimed that his nonexistent daughter was injured in a train wreck and paid Firth five dollars for a lift to the Children's Hospital.
		Two weeks later he derailed another train near Cheyenne, Wyoming, and was plotting a third when he was captured at Pawnee, Oklahoma.
	www.trainorders.com /discussion/read.php?1,77926 (673 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Great Train Robbery: Books: Michael Crichton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The great train robbery is a great book about well a u train robbery.
		The whole book is not just the fast action read that the train robbery part is but also the exiting buildup to the robbery.
		The Great Train Robbery is not only Crichton's best novel, it is also a great work, period.
	www.amazon.ca /Great-Train-Robbery-Michael-Crichton/dp/0060502304 (1443 words)

	Top 25 Crimes of the Century - The Great Train Robbery - TIME
		The 15 thieves who held up the Royal Mail train between Glasgow and London on Aug. 8, 1963 netted 120 bags packed with the equivalent of $7 million and were were treated like folk heroes by the press and public.
		It wasn't non-violent, for one thing (the driver of the train was conked in the head and never fully recovered from the trauma); nor was it as carefully executed (the thieves left fingerprints everywhere).
		The case has lived on in memory because of the further adventures of one of its minor players, Ronnie Biggs, whose escape from prison and long years of eluding justice were constant fodder for the British tabs.
	www.time.com /time/2007/crimes/8.html (235 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 plan was to hold up the night mail train from Glasgow to Euston as it passed through the Buckinghamshire countryside close to Cheddington.
		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 (750 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Great Train Robbery at Epinions.com
		Porter is seen as one of the key figures in creating the groundrules for modern cinema and The great train robbery is 0ne of the first narrative films ever made.
		The plot is dirt simple a gang of robbers first attack and tie up a clerk working at the train station.
		However Griffith couldn't have done it whitout Porter laying the groundwork with films such as The great train robbery.
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	DVD REVIEW: THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Based on his best-selling novel which took extensive dramatic license, "The Great Train Robbery" tells the tale of three men who conspire to steal a gold shipment off a moving train destined for France.
		Crichton takes great pains to recreate the era, succeeding by filming most of the exteriors in Ireland.
		The tools in question happen to be the set of four keys necessary to open the strong boxes on the train.
	www.lightviews.com /greattrain.htm (677 words)

	Amazon.com: The Great Train Robbery: Video: Sean Connery,Donald Sutherland,Lesley-Anne Down,Alan Webb,Malcolm ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A lively, humorous caper film of the first order, The Great Train Robbery also boasts a vividly authentic recreation of mid-Victorian England, all the more remarkable since the production was filmed primarily in Ireland on a budget of $6 million--a miraculously modest sum (even in 1978) for such a lavish-looking film.
		The train was supposed to be traveling only 35 miles-per-hour, but Connery argued that the train was actually moving much faster, an assertion that was confirmed by the helicopter pilot who measured the speed of the train at 55 miles-per-hour.
		At the station, the gold was loaded into the luggage van of the Folkestone train for shipment to the coast and from there to the Crimea.
	www.amazon.com /Great-Train-Robbery-Sean-Connery/dp/0792835093 (1941 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Great Train Robbery: Books: Michael Crichton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The book tells the story of the 1st great train robbery but in true classic Crichton style the writer goes far further than laying the bare facts of the story in front of us.
		Not only are you treated to a great thriller, and the clever plot of the crime itself, but almost submlinally you receive a lesson in the history of the time.
		Crichton uses the testimonies of the participants in the robbery and elaborates upon them expertly, constructing a story in which you are completely immersed from start to finish.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Great-Train-Robbery-Michael-Crichton/dp/009948241X (1072 words)

	Booktalks Quick and Simple
		A robbery during this time took months of planning and obtaining imperative information and objects.
		This robbery took place a decade before the innovative dynamite so Pierce and his comrades had to obtain four keys to the safes where the money would be kept.
		It was especially frustrating for Pierce when the railroad company needed to fix the safes and delayed the date of the robbery.
	nancykeane.com /booktalks/crichton_great.htm (155 words)

	The Great Train Robbery
		For this session of the motion picture club, a twelve-minute, fl-and-white classic called "The Great Train Robbery" was being shown.
		They stopped the Union Pacific's No. 3 train and forced the conductor to unfasten the passenger cars from the rest of the train.
		Surely working for the great inventor would have been an exceptional experience that would have left an indelible impression on Porter.
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	eBay - Product Info - eBay — The Great Train Robbery, VHS and PG items on eBay.com. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		From the decadent parties and mansions of the wealthy to the brothels and dog fights of the underclass, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY is a historical tour de force that culminates in the suspenseful, dangerous climax of this true story.
		War-funds in gold are shipped regularly to France and thence to the front, but the first leg of the gold's journey is by train, from London to one of the port cities.
		The gold is carefully guarded en route to the train station and travels in an impenetrable safe locked with four different keys, two bank officers holding one apiece and the other two in the custody of the station itself.
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	Amazon.co.uk: The Great Train Robbery File: Books: Bruce Reynolds,Nick Reynolds,Alan Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Daring, ingenuity, prison, escapes, on the run, kidnap, drugs, murder, suicide and revenge - these are all facets contained in this visual documentary of great train robberies portrayed by the media from 1963 to the present.
		Here the robbery is used as a point of reference in time, a device used to illustrate the machinations of the media then and now, and its social and cultural impact.
		a very thorough in depth,easy to read history,on the great train robbery,and alsmost everyone connected with it.the reproduction of old press cuttings is superb,many items being seen for the first time,its a refreshing and interesting look at the robbery,something no one has ever done before.a must for all crime enthusiasts.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Great-Train-Robbery-File/dp/0953572463 (538 words)

	The Great Train Robbery
		Then as now, women who wanted to were allowed to commit crimes with impunity, worse, they managed quite easily to make men culpable for their crimes [with the active participation of the courts, as prescribed by the law], and Mary Maxwell, a widow and wife of Andrew Taggert, was good in doing that.
		Andrew Taggert was one of the participants in the preparations required for the Great Train Robbery.
		Taggert was born around 1790 outside Liverpool, and came to London near the turn of the century with his un-married mother, a prostitute.
	www.fathersforlife.org /hist/trainrob.htm (2153 words)

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