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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Coaches of the train involved in the £2.5m Great Train Robbery.
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.
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.