The Great Train Robbery (1963)

[ringway]

Not something I had the slightest interest in until around 3-4 years ago, but I ended up researching quite a lot about this crime, which I find fascinating.

Opinions will always be divided on the rights and wrongs of the crime, but that's something that makes it all-the-more interesting.

This video is probably the best of those available.

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[Steveml63]

HI,
If they had not beaten up the driver and caused him brain damage - most people would have had more admiration for the audacity and amazing planning that went into this famous robbery.
Cheers
Steve

 

[Dryce]

Opinions will always be divided on the rights and wrongs of the crime, but that's something that makes it all-the-more interesting.

What opinions. It was a violent crime. How can anybody with the remotest bit of common sense and decency think there are any 'rights'.

I don't have an issue with people being interested in it as history - and I think the approach and organisation of the perpetrators tells a remarkable story.

But it was a premeditated crime - and one that involved violence.

 

[davymead]

Coincidentally a few weeks back I was contemplating viewing a vehicle at a performance car specialist sited next to the Bridego bridge.

 

[davymead]

What opinions. It was a violent crime. How can anybody with the remotest bit of common sense and decency think there are any 'rights'.

I don't have an issue with people being interested in it as history - and I think the approach and organisation of the perpetrators tells a remarkable story.

But it was a premidated crime - and one that involved violence.

Quite. It was a violent crime. No question. Abhorrent.
IMO one of the main reason why the crime became one of constant conjecture was the sentences handed down to the perpetrators. Seven were jailed for 30 years and a couple more 25 years, which many including me thought unwarranted.
Serial killers they were not.

 

[Teego]

Quite. It was a violent crime. No question. Abhorrent.
IMO one of the main reason why the crime became one of constant conjecture was the sentences handed down to the perpetrators. Seven were jailed for 30 years and a couple more 25 years, which many including me thought unwarranted.
Serial killers they were not.

Ahh, the Good Ole Days. They'd only just abolished hanging.

 

[Ted]

This is a true story.
Many years ago (1975) I was sent to Winson Green prison for refusing to pay a fine (thirty days for a £10 fine)
While waiting in the holding cell under the court, there was a flash guy, very full of himself saying that he had been inside ‘the green’ and had got over the wall. All the screws knew him.
Yeah yeah, I thought.
As we were going through the booking in process at the prison, one of the prison officers looked at him and said “I know you. It’s Wilson isn’t it?” to which he nodded and gave us all a knowing look to show that he was right.
Next day I was in the cell with a couple of old lags chatting away, and one of them said “That guy you came in with. That’s Charlie Wilson. He got over the wall. He got a right kicking when they brought him back” (apparently he had beaten up on of the guards quite badly)
Nobody ever mentioned the Great Train Robbery, and my memory of the guy was a small weasely guy, but if it wasn’t him it is a hell of a coincidence.

Charlie Wilson (criminal) - Wikipedia

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[ringway]

What opinions. It was a violent crime. How can anybody with the remotest bit of common sense and decency think there are any 'rights'.

I don't have an issue with people being interested in it as history - and I think the approach and organisation of the perpetrators tells a remarkable story.

But it was a premeditated crime - and one that involved violence.

Dryce, I think you must have the wrong stick.

At no point did I infer that the violence that took place was right - I mean who (with any common sense!) could deem the violence justifiable in any way?

If you watch the video, there are people who I would say have a lot of common sense that are hoping the perpetrators get a run for their money.