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,
The Great Train Robbery (1903 film) Bank Robbery" (1904, also produced by Lubin) and "The Hold-Up Of The Rocky Mountain Express" (1906). Porter himself tried to re-capture his previous success with "The Life of an American Cowboy" (1906) and a parody of "The Great Train Robbery" titled "The Little Train Robbery" (1905), with an all-child cast (in which a larger gang of bandits holds up a mini train to steal their dolls and candy). The Great Train Robbery (1903 film) The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent short Western film written, produced, and directed by Edwin S. Porter, a former Edison Studios cameraman. Actors