Great Train Robbery (1963) in the capture of Roy James, Ronald Biggs, Jimmy Hussey and John Daly. The trial of the robbers began at Aylesbury Assizes, Buckinghamshire, on 20 January 1964. Because it would be necessary to accommodate a large number of lawyers and journalists, the existing court was deemed too small and so the offices of Aylesbury Rural District Council were specially converted for the event. The defendants were brought to the court each day from Aylesbury Prison in a compartmentalised van, out of view of the large crowd of spectators. Mr Justice Edmund Davies presided over the trial, which lasted 51 days
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