Nearly 60 years after the Great Train Robbery, fresh claims are being made about who planned it and who were the robbers who were never caught. The new book, Great Train Robbery Confidential, is the latest to look into the heist, on 8 August 1963, in which £2.5m was stolen from the Glasgow to London Royal Mail train. Reynolds died in 2013. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Part of the £2.5m stolen by the Great Train Robbers. “Bollocks.”The different theories about who the real train robbers really were now rival the number of claims surrounding the identity of Jack the Ripper, whose murders also spawned scores of books.

Source: The Guardian September 29, 2019 08:03 UTC