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The Great Train Robbery


On April 16 at the Buckingham Assize Court twelve men were given sentences totalling 307 years for stealing £2,600,000 in used bank notes, after holding up the night train from Glasgow to London in August 1963 – a heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery.

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Great Train Robbers Sentenced

Ronnie Biggs, Buckingham Constabulary, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons As noted elsewhere, on August 8, 1963, a gang stopped the Glasgo...