An account of the trial was published in 1857, with illustrations by Percy Cruikshank, the eldest son of Isaac Robert Cruikshank. The history of the robbery can be found in "The First Great Train Robbery", written by David C. Hanrahan in 2011. In the May 1955 issue of "The Railway Magazine" the railway historian Michael Robbins wrote an article on the robbery; in November 1980 the "Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society" carried an account written by the historian John Fletcher.