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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.

    1. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation

      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.

    2. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation

      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.

    3. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation

      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.

    4. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation

      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.

    5. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation

      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).

    6. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation

      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.

    7. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation

      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.

    8. Great Train Robbery Police Commendation

      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.

    9. Great Train Robbery

      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.

    11. Great Train Robbery

      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.

    12. Great Train Robbery

      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.

    13. Great Train Robbery

      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.

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