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On New Year’s Eve 1965 Biggs landed in Sydney Australia.  ibid.

 

In 2001 after suffering a series of strokes Biggs returned to the UK to give himself up.  ibid.

 

 

He committed the crime of the century and became the world’s most wanted man.  Ronnie Biggs was in the gang that pulled off the Great Train Robbery.  Ronnie Biggs: Secret Tapes

 

Biggs escaped.  For ten years police hunted the world for Biggs but it was an unknown journalist who tracked him down.  ibid.

 

One of the great newspaper scoops that never was.  ibid.

 

The two became good friends.  ibid.

 

Biggs nearly wasn’t part of the Great Train Robbery.  ibid.

 

When his bank refused him a loan he turned to his old friend Bruce Reynolds.  Reynolds is widely regarded as the brains behind the Great Train Robbery.  ibid.

 

120 mail bags.  ibid.

 

An equal share: £120,000 (today £2,000,000).  ibid.

 

The untouched farm provided a bumper harvest for forensics.  ibid.

 

The length of the sentence: 30 years.  ibid.

 

July 1965: Fifteen months into his sentence Ronnie Biggs escaped ... A rope ladder thrown over a thirty foot wall, then lowered themselves into a waiting furniture van.  ibid.

 

Rio 1974: Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs gave an interview to a Fleet Street journalist that has never been heard until now.  ibid.

 

The cost of Biggs’ package deal for a new home and place – the equivalent today of half a million pounds.  ibid.

 

Next morning Biggs turned up at room 909 at the Trocadero hotel to continue the interview.  ibid.

 

British police were lying in wait.  ibid.

 

The world’s media scrambled to Rio.  ibid.

 

The rabbit Biggs pulled out of a hat was a love child by a Brazilian girlfriend.  ibid.

 

He put the Biggs’ tapes into storage.  ibid.

 

In 2001 after suffering a series of strokes, Biggs returned to the UK to give himself up.  After 36 years on the run Biggs was finally back behind bars.  He served a further eight years before being released in 2009 on compassionate grounds.  ibid.

 

Stealing today’s equivalent of £45,000,000.  ibid.

 

 

Everybody went in there to see what a million pounds looked like.  And it got bigger and bigger and one guy said, There’s more than two million here.  Ronnie Biggs

 

 

It’s just my kind of luck that I get to wind up in Wandsworth, which is a dirty stinking place.  Ronnie Biggs 

 

 

Over here the gringos go down pretty well – they like the blue eyes.  Ronnie Biggs

 

 

The weather is glorious, the opportunities are marvellous and the natives are friendly.  Ronnie Biggs

    

 

But I do not believe that the money brought us any happiness at all.  It has destroyed our lives.  Ronnie Biggs

 

 

I am Ronnie Biggs.  Ronnie Biggs to Constantine, journalist

 

 

Biggs Arrested: Daily Express follows the trail to his hideout in Rio.  Daily Express front page Saturday 2nd February 1974

 

 

End of the Run Ron!  The Sun headline, return of Ronnie Knight, former husband of Barbara Windsor, to Britain

 

 

Long time no see, Ronnie.  Slipper from Scotland Yard

 

 

It didn’t take long for the gang to make a mistake.  Two of its members tried to pay three months’ rent in used notes to a police widow and soon they were arrested.  The police discovered the farmhouse the gang had used to stash the loot.  And most of the gang were rounded up.  Crimes that Shook Britain

 

 

8th August 1963 midnight: a train rolls steadily through the English countryside just outside Warrington.  Its cargo is one hundred and twenty-eight mail sacks and banknotes worth an estimated five million pounds.  Days that Shook the World: Grand Heist

 

This is the TPO or travelling post office.  ibid.

 

The high value packets on board are sent weekly by banks from all over the country.  ibid.

 

Bruce Reynolds and his team are waiting for the train.  ibid.

 

Jack Mills is coshed repeatedly.  ibid.

 

A human chain begins to pass the mailbags down to the vehicles under the bridge.  They have unloaded a hundred and twenty of the hundred and twenty-eight bags.  ibid.

 

Reynolds orders a complete clean-up of the farm.  ibid.

 

The gang’s clean-up man failed to do his job properly.  ibid.

 

Within four months ten members of the gang would be caught.  ibid.

 

Within eighteen months Charlie Wilson escaped from Winson Green prison.  ibid.

 

Only £336,518 of the stolen money was ever found.  ibid.

 

 

Who masterminded the raid and helped the robbers plan the crime?  Bruce Reynolds, Ronnie Biggs and Buster Edwards became icons as they were tracked down with the rest of the gang.  But no insider was ever brought to justice.  Who masterminded the raid and helped the robbers plan the crime?  The Great Train Robbery’s Secret Mastermind? Channel 4 2013

 

An insider could have betrayed the Queen’s mail.  ibid.

 

The secret Post Office inquiry began in the shadows.  ibid.

 

Having tipped off [Gordon] Goody about the train, the Ulstermen continued to feed the gang with vital information right up to the day of the heist.  ibid.

 

The farm had not been cleaned up and was just as the robbers left it.  ibid.

 

The Post Office investigators were never to have such closure.   ibid.

 

 

The [Great Train] robbery was brilliantly planned and very skilfully executed, and so simple.  In the dead of night one of them climbs the gantry and wires up a cheap battery to the red signal.  Train comes to a halt; they bust into the cab.  Reg Abbiss, BBC News 1961-1973

 

 

The Great Train Robbery in 1963 is for many the most famous heist in British history.  Robbers made off with £2.6 million in used banknotes from the Glasgow to London Royal Mail train.  That’s the equivalent of around £40 million today.  Real Crime with Mark Austin: Britain’s Biggest Heist, ITV 2010

 

 

The robbery that made British criminal history: it wasn’t just the amount that stung the public, the Queen’s train had been attacked carrying the Royal Mail from Glasgow to London.  The Underworld: Robbery, BBC 1994

 

 

Of course I’d recognise the bastard.  Robbery 1967 starring Stanley Baker & Joanna Pettet & James Booth & & Frank Finlay & Barry Foster & William Marlowe & Clinton Geryn & George Sewell & Glynn Edwards et al, director Peter Yates, mother with victim in arms

 

We’re got capital and half the investment.  We all agreed to go ahead?  ibid.  Paul to gang

 

Three or four million pounds ... It’s a night mail train ... This is the big one.  The biggest.  ibid.

 

You start cheating, Paul, you end up thinking everyone else is cheating too.  ibid.  her to him

 

Don’t move for half an hour.  ibid.  gangsta to train guards

 

Money to burn, Dave?  ibid.  rozzer

 

 

I do borrow from banks.  I mean that is my job.  Buster 1988 starring Phil Collins & Julie Walters & Sheila Hancock & Larry Lamb & Stephanie Lawrence & Ellie Beaven & Ralph Brown & Christopher Ellison & Martin Jarvis & Anthony Quayle et al, director David Green, Buster

 

It’s unlucky working with another Firm.  ibid.  Buster

 

£1,000,000!  Biggest Ever Mail Robbery.  ibid.  Daily Mirror front page

 

Right we’ll go.  I’ll get Fairclough to send the dustman in to make sure this place is cleared up.  ibid.  Reynolds

 

This is a crime against the very structure of our society.  ibid.  Sir James

 

I want those bastards nailed to the floor.  ibid.  chief rozzer

 

You should never have brought us to this God-forsaken place.   ibid.  her to him

 

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