Great Train Robbery (1963) retirement, chiefly present accounts of the investigation, capture, trial and recapture of the robbers. Great Train Robbery (1963) The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train heading 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. After having tampered with the lineside signals in order to bring the train to a halt, a 15-strong gang of robbers led by Bruce Reynolds attacked the train. Other gang members included Gordon Goody, Buster Edwards, Charlie Wilson,
Great Gold Robbery on from 1855, Michael Robbins wrote a detailed feature about this incident called "The Great South-Eastern Bullion Robbery" in "The Railway Magazine" May 1955 issue. Michael Crichton's novel "The Great Train Robbery" and subsequent feature film presents a highly fictionalised version of the event, portraying Pierce (played by Sean Connery), as a gentleman master criminal who eventually escapes. The true story of the robbery can be found in the book by David C. Hanrahan: "The First Great Train Robbery". The robbery also featured as one theme in the Victorian mystery novel entitled "Kept", written by D.J. Taylor; however in this