Great Train Robbery (1. Wikipedia. Great Train Robbery. Mentmore Bridge (previously known as Bridego Bridge and then Train Robbers' bridge),[1] scene of the robbery. Date. 8 August 1. Time. 03: 0. 0Location.

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1. The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8.
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Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, Buckinghamshire, England. Coordinates. 51°5. N0°4. 0′1. 0″W / 5. N 0. 6. 69. 44°W / 5.

Coordinates: 5. 1°5. N0°4. 0′1. 0″W / 5. N 0. 6. 69. 44°W / 5. Also known as. Cheddington Mail Van Raid. Cause. Train robbery.

Participants. Bruce Reynolds, Gordon Goody, Buster Edwards, Charlie Wilson, Jimmy Hussey, Ronnie Biggs, Tommy Wisbey, John Wheater, Jimmy White and Brian Field. Outcome. Theft of £2. Watch The Void Online Full Movie.

Non- fatal injuries. Jack Mills (train driver)Charges. Conspiracy to rob, armed robbery, obstructing justice and receiving stolen goods. Verdict. Guilty. Convictions. Bill Boal and Lennie Field later exonerated) to terms up to 3. The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.

Royal Mailtrain heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1. Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.[2]After tampering with line signals, a 1. Bruce Reynolds attacked the train.

Other gang members included Gordon Goody, Buster Edwards, Charlie Wilson, Roy James, John Daly, Jimmy White, Ronnie Biggs, Tommy Wisbey, Jim Hussey, Bob Welch and Roger Cordrey, as well as three men known only as numbers "1", "2" and "3". A 1. 6th man, an unnamed retired train driver, was also present at the time of the robbery.[3]With careful planning based on inside information from an individual known as "The Ulsterman" (named as Patrick Mc. Kenna in 2. 01. 4), the robbers escaped with over £2. The bulk of the stolen money was never recovered. Though the gang did not use any firearms, Jack Mills, the train driver, was beaten over the head with a metal bar. Mills' injuries were severe enough to end his career. After the robbery, the gang hid at Leatherslade Farm.

It was after the police found this hideout that incriminating evidence would lead to the eventual arrest and conviction of most of the gang. The ringleaders were sentenced to 3. Robbery[edit]Planning[edit]The plan to intercept and rob the overnight Glasgow- to- London mail train was based on information from Patrick Mc. Kenna, a postal worker from Salford who had detailed knowledge of the amounts of money carried on Royal Mail trains.

Mc. Kenna was introduced to two of the criminals who would carry out the raid — Gordon Goody and Buster Edwards — by London solicitor's clerk Brian Field. His name was kept secret, and he was known to the robbers only as "The Ulsterman".[4]The raid was devised over a period of months by a core team: Goody and Edwards, along with Bruce Reynolds, Charlie Wilson and Roy James, Reynolds assuming the role of "mastermind" for the robbery. This gang, although very successful in the criminal underworld, had virtually no experience in stopping and robbing trains. So it was agreed to enlist the help of another London gang called The South Coast Raiders.

This group, which included Tommy Wisbey, Bob Welch and Jim Hussey, who were already accomplished train robbers[citation needed], also included Roger Cordrey – a man who was a specialist in this field and knew how to rig the track- side signals to stop the train. Other associates (including Ronnie Biggs, a man Reynolds had previously met in jail) were added as the organisation evolved, and the final gang who took part in the raid comprised a total of 1. Royal Mail train[edit]At 1. Wednesday 7 August 1. TPO) "Up Special" train set off from Glasgow Central stationen route to Euston Station in London. It was scheduled to arrive at Euston at 0.

The train was hauled by English Electric Type 4 (later Class 4. D3. 26 (later 4. 0 1. The train consisted of 1. Post Office staff who sorted mail during the journey. Mail was loaded onto the train at Glasgow and also during station stops en route, and from line- side collection points where local post office staff would hang mail sacks on elevated track- side hooks that were caught by nets deployed by the on- board staff. Sorted mail on the train could be dropped off at the same time. This process of exchange allowed 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 £3. UK Bank Holiday weekend, the total on the day of the robbery was to be between £2. In 1. 96. 0, the Post Office Investigation Branch (IB) recommended the fitting of alarms to all Travelling Post Offices with HVP carriages. This recommendation was implemented in 1. HVP carriages without alarms were retained in reserve.

By August 1. 96. 3, three HVP carriages were equipped with alarms, bars over the windows and bolts and catches on the doors, but at the time of the robbery, these carriages were out of service, so a reserve carriage (M3. M) without those features had to be used. The fitting of radios was also considered, but they were deemed to be too expensive, and the measure was not implemented.[7] This carriage was kept for evidence for seven years following the event and then burned at a scrapyard in Norfolk in the presence of police and post office officials to deter any souvenir hunters.

Stopping the train[edit]Just after 0. August, the driver, Jack Mills from Crewe, stopped the train on the West Coast Main Line at a red signal light at Sears Crossing, Ledburn, between Leighton Buzzard and Cheddington. The signal had been tampered with by the robbers: they had covered the green light and connected a six- volt Ever Ready battery to power the red light. The locomotive's second crew member, known as the secondman or "fireman", was 2. David Whitby, also from Crewe.

He climbed down from the cab to call the signalman from a railway track- side telephone, only to find the cables had been cut. As he made his return to the train, he was grabbed from behind and quickly overpowered by one of the robbers. Meanwhile, the train driver, 5. Mills, waited in the cab for Whitby's return. Gang members entered the cabin from both sides of the train, and as Mills grappled with one robber and attempted to force him off the footplate, he was struck from behind by another gang member with a cosh, rendering him semi- conscious.

At this stage, the robbers had foreseen that they would encounter a problem. They had to move the train from where it had been stopped to a suitable place to load their ex- army dropside truck with the stolen money. Bridge No. 1. 27 (Bridego Bridge, now known as Mentmore[8] Bridge), approximately half a mile (8.

One of the robbers (masquerading as a school teacher) had spent months befriending railway staff and familiarising himself with the layout and operation of trains and carriages. Ultimately though, it was decided that it would be better to use an experienced train driver to move the locomotive and the first two carriages from the signals to the bridge after uncoupling the carriages containing the rest of the sorters and the ordinary mail. On the night, the gang's hired train driver (an acquaintance of Ronnie Biggs, later referred to as "Stan Agate" or "Peter") was unable to operate this newer type of locomotive; although having driven trains for many years (by then retired), he was experienced only on shunting (switching) locomotives on the Southern Region. With no other alternative available to them, it was quickly decided that Mills would have to move the train to the stopping point near the bridge, which was indicated by a white sheet stretched between poles on the track. Ronnie Biggs's only task was to supervise Stan Agate's participation in the robbery, and when it became obvious that Agate was not able to drive the train, he and Biggs were sent to the waiting truck to help load the mail bags.