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The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.61 million [2] (calculated to present-day value of £69 million - or $73,547,750) from a Royal Mail train travelling from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.
The Great Train Robbery is a two-part British television miniseries, [1] written by Chris Chibnall, that was first broadcast on BBC One on 18 and 19 December 2013. The series is distributed worldwide by Kew Media.
English: The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American Western film written, produced, and directed by Edwin S. Porter. 中文（简体）： 1093年美国西部片《火车大劫案》 Captions
The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent film made by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company.It follows a gang of outlaws who hold up and rob a steam train at a station in the American West, flee across mountainous terrain, and are finally defeated by a posse of locals.
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The robbery was a year in the planning and involved making sets of duplicate keys from wax impressions for the locks on the safes, and bribing the train's guard, a man called Burgess. [ 12 ] : 210 Crichton, the author of the book and the screenplay, was inspired by Kellow Chesney's 1970 book The Victorian Underworld , which is a comprehensive ...
In the film The Great Train Robbery, two unnamed bandits break into a railroad telegraph and force the operator at gunpoint to stop a train and order its engineer to fill the locomotive's tender at the station's water tank.
The Great Train Robbery is a best-selling 1975 historical novel written by Michael Crichton, his third novel under his own name and his thirteenth novel overall.Originally published in the US by Alfred A. Knopf (then a division of Random House), it was later published by Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.