The Great Train Robbery, 8th August 1963, How The Great Train Robbery Did, Investigation, Effects After The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery is the well known and £2.6 million train robbery executed on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn next to Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England. The stolen money was not recovered. This was almost certainly the major robbery by value, in British history, until the Securitas depot theft of 2006 in Kent.
Robbery
The Glasgow to London mobile post office (TPO) train was halted by a red signal at Sears Crossing. The indicators had been meddled with, unknown to the driver, with a glove placed above the green light and a six-volt battery powering the red one for the time being. The co-driver David Whitby went to call the signalman only to discover the telephone wires had been cut. When he returned, he was surprised that the cab was in the charge of burglars.
One difficulty the robbers came across was that the diesel train was dissimilar from the local trains, making it hard to work. One of the robbers had spent months assisting railway employees and make acquainted himself with the outline and procedure but it was determined in its place to use an skilled train driver to drive the train from the stopping position at the signals to the bridge after disconnecting the redundant carriages. Though, the train driver was not capable to operate the train and it was rapidly decided that the original driver, Jack Mills, would move the train down the track. The high rated carriage was detached from the others and driven a further half a mile to Bridego Bridge where the robbers' Land Rovers stood in wait. Stan Agate's partaking in the theft was Ronnie Biggs' only job and when it became apparent that they were of no use they were send away to the pending ex-army truck to facilitate loading the mail bags.
A 15-member gang, headed by Bruce Reynolds comprised Biggs, Jimmy Hussey, Charlie Wilson, Roy James, Jimmy White, Tommy Wisbey, Gordon Goody and Buster Edwards, one of whom was an ex-British Army paratrooper, embarked the train and began to drop off the money sacks into waiting vehicles on the street below the overpass. Even though no guns were used, the train driver was smacked on the skull with an iron slab, resulting in a black eye and facial stain. The attacker was one of two members of the gang who was never recognized. Frank Williams claims to have traced the man, but he could not be arrested because of lack of proofs. Mills improved but had regular shock headaches the rest of his life. He died in 1970 from leukemia.
£2,631,784 was theft in used £1, £5 and £10 notes, the equivalent of £40 million (US $80 million) attuned for 2006 price rises.
Investigation and capture
After getting nameless information, police went to Leatherslade Farm near Oakley, Buckinghamshire five days later. There they discovered fingerprints of the robbers - including those on a Monopoly board game, used following the theft but with real money.
The first gang member trapped was Roger Cordrey and his pal who assisted him to hide his split of the stolen money, William Boal. The duo was residing in a borrowed cottage above a florist store in Wimborne Road, Moordown, and Bournemouth. The CID was informed by a widow Ethel Clark, when Boal and Cordey paid rent for a garage, three months' up-front, all in used 10 shilling notes. Their capture was made in Tweedale Road off Castle Lane West.
Thirteen of the fifteen burglars were trapped and caught and were sentenced on 16 April 1964 and jailed.
After Effects of The Great Train Robbery
As a consequence of this robbery, the British Railways rule book was altered. If stopped by a red signal drivers had before been required to get in touch with the signaller by telephone - needing them to depart the driving cab. After the modification, drivers of mail trains were no longer permitted to leave the cab at any red signals and were to at all time keep their cab doors locked. These systems remained in strength until the departure of mail trains in the UK.
Robbery
The Glasgow to London mobile post office (TPO) train was halted by a red signal at Sears Crossing. The indicators had been meddled with, unknown to the driver, with a glove placed above the green light and a six-volt battery powering the red one for the time being. The co-driver David Whitby went to call the signalman only to discover the telephone wires had been cut. When he returned, he was surprised that the cab was in the charge of burglars.
One difficulty the robbers came across was that the diesel train was dissimilar from the local trains, making it hard to work. One of the robbers had spent months assisting railway employees and make acquainted himself with the outline and procedure but it was determined in its place to use an skilled train driver to drive the train from the stopping position at the signals to the bridge after disconnecting the redundant carriages. Though, the train driver was not capable to operate the train and it was rapidly decided that the original driver, Jack Mills, would move the train down the track. The high rated carriage was detached from the others and driven a further half a mile to Bridego Bridge where the robbers' Land Rovers stood in wait. Stan Agate's partaking in the theft was Ronnie Biggs' only job and when it became apparent that they were of no use they were send away to the pending ex-army truck to facilitate loading the mail bags.
A 15-member gang, headed by Bruce Reynolds comprised Biggs, Jimmy Hussey, Charlie Wilson, Roy James, Jimmy White, Tommy Wisbey, Gordon Goody and Buster Edwards, one of whom was an ex-British Army paratrooper, embarked the train and began to drop off the money sacks into waiting vehicles on the street below the overpass. Even though no guns were used, the train driver was smacked on the skull with an iron slab, resulting in a black eye and facial stain. The attacker was one of two members of the gang who was never recognized. Frank Williams claims to have traced the man, but he could not be arrested because of lack of proofs. Mills improved but had regular shock headaches the rest of his life. He died in 1970 from leukemia.
£2,631,784 was theft in used £1, £5 and £10 notes, the equivalent of £40 million (US $80 million) attuned for 2006 price rises.
Investigation and capture
After getting nameless information, police went to Leatherslade Farm near Oakley, Buckinghamshire five days later. There they discovered fingerprints of the robbers - including those on a Monopoly board game, used following the theft but with real money.
The first gang member trapped was Roger Cordrey and his pal who assisted him to hide his split of the stolen money, William Boal. The duo was residing in a borrowed cottage above a florist store in Wimborne Road, Moordown, and Bournemouth. The CID was informed by a widow Ethel Clark, when Boal and Cordey paid rent for a garage, three months' up-front, all in used 10 shilling notes. Their capture was made in Tweedale Road off Castle Lane West.
Thirteen of the fifteen burglars were trapped and caught and were sentenced on 16 April 1964 and jailed.
After Effects of The Great Train Robbery
As a consequence of this robbery, the British Railways rule book was altered. If stopped by a red signal drivers had before been required to get in touch with the signaller by telephone - needing them to depart the driving cab. After the modification, drivers of mail trains were no longer permitted to leave the cab at any red signals and were to at all time keep their cab doors locked. These systems remained in strength until the departure of mail trains in the UK.
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