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Great Train Robbery Anniversary
The Great Train Robbery is being remembered, fifty years after thieves robbed a Royal Mail train on the West Coast Main Line near Leighton Buzzard.
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1. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation 1
John Woolley (left) and Keith Milner, who worked on the case of the Great Train Robbery, at a ceremony in Oxfordshire on Wed 7 Aug 2013 where they received commendations from current Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Sara Thornton.
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2. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation 2
A cake to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1963 Great Train Robbery. It shows a Monopoly board, like the one the gang behind the robbers played with while they were holed up at a farmhouse near Brill, Buckinghamshire.
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3. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation 3
Former policeman John Woolley, who worked on the case of the Great Train Robbery, at a ceremony in Oxfordshire on Wed 7 Aug 2013 where he received a commendation from current Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Sara Thornton.
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4. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation 4
Former policeman Keith Milner, who worked on the case of the Great Train Robbery, at a ceremony on Wed 7 Aug 2013 where he received a commendation from current Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Sara Thornton at Eynsham Hall, Witney, Oxfordshire.
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5. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation 5
John Woolley (right) and Keith Milner, who worked on the case of the Great Train Robbery, at a ceremony in Oxfordshire on Wed 7 Aug 2013 where they received commendations from current Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Sara Thornton (centre).
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6. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation 6
The Monopoly board found during the investigation into the 1963 Great Train Robbery. The gang behind the robbery played the game while they were holed up at a farm near Brill, Buckinghamshire.
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7. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation 7
John Woolley (left) and Keith Milner, who worked on the case of the Great Train Robbery, at a ceremony in Oxfordshire on Wed 7 Aug 2013 where they received commendations from current Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Sara Thornton.
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8. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation 8
Former policeman John Woolley with the Monopoly board found during the investigation into the 1963 Great Train Robbery. The gang behind the robbery played Monopoly while holed up at a farmhouse near Brill, Buckinghamshire.
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9. Great Train Robbery 1
The Bridego Bridge near Ledburn in Buckinghamshire which was used in the Great Train Robbery where the gang unloaded over £2.5m in used notes - worth around £46m today - from the Glasgow to Euston night mail train.
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10. Great Train Robbery 3
A police-car escorting the lorry and two Land Rovers, which police believe the bandits carried much or all of their haul after the £2.6m mail train robbery, out of Leatherslade Farm, Oakley, Buckinghamshire, where the gang hid after the crime. Picture date: 19 Aug 1963.
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11. Great Train Robbery 4
The Bridego Bridge near Ledburn in Buckinghamshire which was used in the Great Train Robbery where the gang unloaded over £2.5m in used notes - worth around £46m today - from the Glasgow to Euston night mail train.
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12. Great Train Robbery 7
The Bridego Bridge near Ledburn in Buckinghamshire which was used in the Great Train Robbery where the gang unloaded over £2.5m in used notes - worth around £46m pounds today - from the Glasgow to Euston night mail train.
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13. Great Train Robbery 6
Coaches of the train involved in the £2.5m Great Train Robbery.
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14. Great Train Robbery 5
Great Train Robber Bruce Reynolds at Oakley Village Hall, Buckinghamshire, during a village fete, August 2003. The robbers used nearby Leatherslade Farm as a hideout during the planning and immediate aftermath of the robbery in 1963.
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15. Great Train Robbery 2
Nick Reynolds, the son of Great Train Robbery mastermind Bruce Reynolds, who has written a book with co-author Chris Pickard, that aims to dispel some of the lies, myths and fiction about the robbery 50 years after the event that took place on 8 August 1963.
