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January 2024... The Great Train Robbery is a two-part miniseries, broadcast on British television in 2013.
The story of the Great Train Robbery , which occurred on August 8, 1963, is related from the perpetrators’ perspective in A Robber's Tale and from the authorities’ perspective in A Copper's Tale . Ronnie Biggs , perhaps the best-known of the robbers, died on the same day that A Robber's Tale was broadcast.
For those unfamiliar with this event, the Great Train Robbery was the theft of GBP £2.61 million (present-day value GBP £58 million) from an overnight Glasgow-London Royal Mail train in Buckinghamshire, England. The robbers did not carry firearms.
Planning was facilitated by inside information from someone known as "The Ulsterman" who has never been identified. The bulk of the money has never been recovered.
IMHO, it’s one thing to rob a bank but to successfully halt a train and make-off with the contents, when in transit, is quite another! A tale of derring do. 😱
#HumpdayAndChill
The story of the Great Train Robbery , which occurred on August 8, 1963, is related from the perpetrators’ perspective in A Robber's Tale and from the authorities’ perspective in A Copper's Tale . Ronnie Biggs , perhaps the best-known of the robbers, died on the same day that A Robber's Tale was broadcast.
For those unfamiliar with this event, the Great Train Robbery was the theft of GBP £2.61 million (present-day value GBP £58 million) from an overnight Glasgow-London Royal Mail train in Buckinghamshire, England. The robbers did not carry firearms.
Planning was facilitated by inside information from someone known as "The Ulsterman" who has never been identified. The bulk of the money has never been recovered.
IMHO, it’s one thing to rob a bank but to successfully halt a train and make-off with the contents, when in transit, is quite another! A tale of derring do. 😱
#HumpdayAndChill
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In 1963, cyber crime barely existed, if at all, so cash was king and meticulous planning was needed to pull off something like the Great Train Robbery. Within the criminal fraternity, there was a hierarchy; the most skilled, who did not fire a shot, were at the top followed by those who killed or harmed their victims and bystanders.
