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The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.61 million [2] (worth about £69 million GBP, equivalent to approximately $3.284 million USD, in 2023) 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 St. Trinian's Train Robbery, the 1966 fourth film of the St Trinians film saga; The First Great Train Robbery, a 1978 film, released in the U.S. as The Great Train Robbery, directed by Michael Crichton, based on his novel; Old 587: The Great Train Robbery, a 2000 film that involves the steam locomotive Nickel Plate Road 587
The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent Western action 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.
The First Great Train Robbery (known in the United States as The Great Train Robbery) is a 1978 British heist comedy film directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay based on his 1975 novel The Great Train Robbery. The film stars Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down.
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.
Bruce Richard Reynolds (7 September 1931 [2] – 28 February 2013) [3] was an English criminal who masterminded the 1963 Great Train Robbery. [4] At the time it was Britain's largest robbery, netting £2,631,684, [5] equivalent to £70 million today. [6]
Poster for the 1926 film The Great K & A Train Robbery. Train robberies are a common depiction in Western films and media. The first movie to depict a train robbery was the 1903 silent film The Great Train Robbery, produced by Edison Studios. This 11-minute film depicts a gang of outlaws who rob a train, only to later be hunted down by ...
Brian Arthur Field (15 December 1934 – 27 April 1979) was an English solicitor's clerk who was one of the masterminds of the 1963 Great Train Robbery.He was the crucial link between the key informant known only as "Ulsterman" (who came up with the idea of robbing the money-laden night mail train and also provided the details of the schedule and contents of the trains) with the actual gang ...