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Friday, January 23, 2004 |
 The Great Train Robbery. ... late on Wednesday 7th August 1963 the "Up Special" train left Glasgow en-route for Euston. The train was a TPO (Travelling Post Office) and consisted of a number of carriages where Post Office staff sorted the mail and parcels en-route prior to its arrival in London. The second carriage from the front of the train was a HVP (High Value Package) where registered mail was sorted. Much of this consisted of cash. Usually the value of these items would have been in the region of £300,000 but, because there had been a Bank Holiday Weekend in Scotland the total on the day of the robbery was £2.3 million. (About £30 million today) ...Enter Bruce Reynolds and his gang. Here's the Thames Valley Police, here the version of the British Transport Police; and here is what the Crime Library has to say about the most audacious crime in British history.
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© Copyright 2004 Ralf Zeigermann.
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