Great Train Robbery (1963) Head of the Buckinghamshire Crime Investigation Department (CID) was born on 29 September 1909 and died on 28 November 2005, aged 96 years. He retired on the last day of the trial after the verdicts were handed down (at the then compulsory retirement age of 55). This allowed him (with Ronald Payne of "The Sunday Telegraph", who was involved in the paper's coverage of the case) to be the first of the investigators to write a book "The Train Robbers" on the robbery investigation in 1964. In the book he expressed some frustration with the Flying Squad although he mostly
The Great Train Robbery (2013 TV series) gave it four stars out of five and noted the high attention to detail by Chris Chibnall. Sam Wollaston from "The Guardian" said "A Robber's Tale" "beautifully explores the dynamic of a gang of men". "The Great Train Robbery" received a BAFTA nomination in 2014. The two films have been released on DVD by publisher Acorn Media UK and is available from the BBC. It was released at other outlets on 6 January 2014. The Great Train Robbery (2013 TV series) The Great Train Robbery is a two-part British television miniseries, written by Chris Chibnall, that was first broadcast on