The Great Train Robbery: Britain's Most Infamous Heist

“You won’t believe this, but they’ve stolen a train.” That was the special announcement heard on police radios in the early hours of August 8, 1963, after a gang of criminals pulled off one of, if not the most infamous heist in British history. They robbed a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London and made off with 120 mailbags containing £2.6 million (which is around £60 million in today’s money). Nobody was killed, although the train driver received a serious cosh on the noggin. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics... Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics:    / @geographicstravel   TopTenz:    / toptenznet   Check out Karl's YouTube Channels: Fact Fiend:    / @factfiend   Wiki Weekends:    / @wikiweekends   Untitled Side Channel:    / @untitledsidechannel   Further Reading: https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/su... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ob... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-10209584 https://web.archive.org/web/201412301... https://archive.org/details/greatbrit... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://web.archive.org/web/201412301... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forc... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forc... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2... https://archive.org/details/greattrai... https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/w... https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/f... https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/w... https://inews.co.uk/culture/televisio... Tim Coates - The Great British Train Robbery, 1963 Brenda Haugen - The Great Train Robbery Daily Mail - The Great Train Robbery and Most Infamous British Crimes Mike Holgate - The Treat Train Robbery and Other Railway Crimes The Guardian The Evening Standard BBC News Inews British Transport Police