The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery of the moor from Longmoor. This was previously a Boys own Preparatory school based at Burghclere near Newbury, but had coincidentally merged with a Girls Preparatory School at the location at Liss 9 months prior to the making of the film The film was among the 15 most popular movies at the British box office in 1966. The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery is a British film comedy set in the fictional St Trinian's School, released in 1966, three years after the Great Train Robbery had taken place. It also parodies the technocratic ideas
Great Train Robbery (1963) mail to be distributed locally without delaying the train with unnecessary stops. One of the carriages involved in the robbery is preserved at the Nene Valley Railway. The second carriage behind the engine was known as the HVP (high value packages) coach, which carried large quantities of money and registered mail for sorting. Usually the value of the shipment was in the region of £300,000, but because the previous weekend had been a UK Bank Holiday weekend, the total on the day of the robbery was to be between £2.5 and £3 million. In 1960, the Post Office Investigation Branch