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Great Train Robbery (1. Wikipedia. Great Train Robbery. Mentmore Bridge (previously known as Bridego Bridge and then Train Robbers' bridge),[1] scene of the robbery. Date. 8 August 1.

Time. 03: 0. 0Location. Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, Buckinghamshire, England.

Coordinates. 51°5. N0°4. 0′1. 0″W / 5. N 0. 6. 69. 44°W / 5.

The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8. The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery is a British film comedy set in the fictional St Trinian's School, released in 1966, three years after the Great Train Robbery. Share this Rating. Title: The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966) 5.9 /10. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site?

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Coordinates: 5. 1°5. N0°4. 0′1. 0″W / 5. N 0. 6. 69. 44°W / 5. Also known as. Cheddington Mail Van Raid. Cause. Train robbery. Participants. Bruce Reynolds, Gordon Goody, Buster Edwards, Charlie Wilson, Jimmy Hussey, Ronnie Biggs, Tommy Wisbey, John Wheater, Jimmy White and Brian Field.

Outcome. Theft of £2. Non- fatal injuries. Jack Mills (train driver)Charges. Conspiracy to rob, armed robbery, obstructing justice and receiving stolen goods. Verdict. Guilty. Convictions.

Bill Boal and Lennie Field later exonerated) to terms up to 3. The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2. Royal Mailtrain heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1.

Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.[2]After tampering with line signals, a 1. Bruce Reynolds attacked the train. Other gang members included Gordon Goody, Buster Edwards, Charlie Wilson, Roy James, John Daly, Jimmy White, Ronnie Biggs, Tommy Wisbey, Jim Hussey, Bob Welch and Roger Cordrey, as well as three men known only as numbers "1", "2" and "3". A 1. 6th man, an unnamed retired train driver, was also present at the time of the robbery.[3]With careful planning based on inside information from an individual known as "The Ulsterman" (named as Patrick Mc. Kenna in 2. 01. 4), the robbers escaped with over £2. The bulk of the stolen money was never recovered.

Though the gang did not use any firearms, Jack Mills, the train driver, was beaten over the head with a metal bar. Mills' injuries were severe enough to end his career. After the robbery, the gang hid at Leatherslade Farm. It was after the police found this hideout that incriminating evidence would lead to the eventual arrest and conviction of most of the gang. The ringleaders were sentenced to 3. Robbery[edit]Planning[edit]The plan to intercept and rob the overnight Glasgow- to- London mail train was based on information from Patrick Mc.

Kenna, a postal worker from Salford who had detailed knowledge of the amounts of money carried on Royal Mail trains. Mc. Kenna was introduced to two of the criminals who would carry out the raid — Gordon Goody and Buster Edwards — by London solicitor's clerk Brian Field.

His name was kept secret, and he was known to the robbers only as "The Ulsterman".[4]The raid was devised over a period of months by a core team: Goody and Edwards, along with Bruce Reynolds, Charlie Wilson and Roy James, Reynolds assuming the role of "mastermind" for the robbery. This gang, although very successful in the criminal underworld, had virtually no experience in stopping and robbing trains. So it was agreed to enlist the help of another London gang called The South Coast Raiders. This group, which included Tommy Wisbey, Bob Welch and Jim Hussey, who were already accomplished train robbers[citation needed], also included Roger Cordrey – a man who was a specialist in this field and knew how to rig the track- side signals to stop the train. Other associates (including Ronnie Biggs, a man Reynolds had previously met in jail) were added as the organisation evolved, and the final gang who took part in the raid comprised a total of 1. Royal Mail train[edit]At 1. Wednesday 7 August 1.

TPO) "Up Special" train set off from Glasgow Central stationen route to Euston Station in London. It was scheduled to arrive at Euston at 0.

The train was hauled by English Electric Type 4 (later Class 4. D3. 26 (later 4. 0 1. The train consisted of 1. Post Office staff who sorted mail during the journey. Mail was loaded onto the train at Glasgow and also during station stops en route, and from line- side collection points where local post office staff would hang mail sacks on elevated track- side hooks that were caught by nets deployed by the on- board staff.

Sorted mail on the train could be dropped off at the same time. This process of exchange allowed mail to be distributed locally without delaying the train with unnecessary stops. One of the carriages involved in the robbery is preserved at the Nene Valley Railway.

The second carriage behind the engine was known as the HVP (high value packages) coach, which carried large quantities of money and registered mail for sorting. Usually the value of the shipment was in the region of £3. UK Bank Holiday weekend, the total on the day of the robbery was to be between £2.

In 1. 96. 0, the Post Office Investigation Branch (IB) recommended the fitting of alarms to all Travelling Post Offices with HVP carriages. Watch Dante`S Peak HDQ. This recommendation was implemented in 1. HVP carriages without alarms were retained in reserve.

By August 1. 96. 3, three HVP carriages were equipped with alarms, bars over the windows and bolts and catches on the doors, but at the time of the robbery, these carriages were out of service, so a reserve carriage (M3. M) without those features had to be used. The fitting of radios was also considered, but they were deemed to be too expensive, and the measure was not implemented.[7] This carriage was kept for evidence for seven years following the event and then burned at a scrapyard in Norfolk in the presence of police and post office officials to deter any souvenir hunters.

Stopping the train[edit]Just after 0. August, the driver, Jack Mills from Crewe, stopped the train on the West Coast Main Line at a red signal light at Sears Crossing, Ledburn, between Leighton Buzzard and Cheddington. The signal had been tampered with by the robbers: they had covered the green light and connected a six- volt Ever Ready battery to power the red light.

The locomotive's second crew member, known as the secondman or "fireman", was 2. David Whitby, also from Crewe. He climbed down from the cab to call the signalman from a railway track- side telephone, only to find the cables had been cut. As he made his return to the train, he was grabbed from behind and quickly overpowered by one of the robbers. Meanwhile, the train driver, 5. Mills, waited in the cab for Whitby's return. Gang members entered the cabin from both sides of the train, and as Mills grappled with one robber and attempted to force him off the footplate, he was struck from behind by another gang member with a cosh, rendering him semi- conscious.

At this stage, the robbers had foreseen that they would encounter a problem. They had to move the train from where it had been stopped to a suitable place to load their ex- army dropside truck with the stolen money. Bridge No. 1. 27 (Bridego Bridge, now known as Mentmore[8] Bridge), approximately half a mile (8. One of the robbers (masquerading as a school teacher) had spent months befriending railway staff and familiarising himself with the layout and operation of trains and carriages. Ultimately though, it was decided that it would be better to use an experienced train driver to move the locomotive and the first two carriages from the signals to the bridge after uncoupling the carriages containing the rest of the sorters and the ordinary mail. On the night, the gang's hired train driver (an acquaintance of Ronnie Biggs, later referred to as "Stan Agate" or "Peter") was unable to operate this newer type of locomotive; although having driven trains for many years (by then retired), he was experienced only on shunting (switching) locomotives on the Southern Region. With no other alternative available to them, it was quickly decided that Mills would have to move the train to the stopping point near the bridge, which was indicated by a white sheet stretched between poles on the track.

Ronnie Biggs's only task was to supervise Stan Agate's participation in the robbery, and when it became obvious that Agate was not able to drive the train, he and Biggs were sent to the waiting truck to help load the mail bags.

The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery. The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery is a British film comedy set in the fictional St Trinian's School, released in 1. Great Train Robbery had taken place.[1] It also parodies the technocratic ideas of the Harold Wilson government and its support of the comprehensive school system. Directed by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat with a script by Sidney and Leslie Gilliat, it was the last in the series of four films, one in 1.

It retained George Cole, Richard Wattis, Eric Barker, Michael Ripper and Raymond Huntley from the earlier films. Several new actors were brought in, including Frankie Howerd as Alfred (Alphonse) Askett, Reg Varney as Gilbert, Dora Bryan as headmistress Amber Spottiswood, and Stratford Johns as the Voice.

Although asked twice, Joyce Grenfell refused to appear again as Sergeant Ruby Gates; she was later reported to have said that she regretted appearing in the St Trinian's saga.[citation needed]Raymond Huntley appeared as the "Minister of Schools" (a fictional title), having appeared in a different role in the earlier films; and Cyril Chamberlain appeared as Maxie. The extensive use of trick gadgets in Alphonse's hairdressing salon (used to communicate with the gang's mastermind) spoofs the secret gadgets used in the James Bond spy films of the Sixties, while the gimmick of having the mastermind conceal his identity throughout the film (he is never seen on screen) spoofs the character of Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who was originally only an unseen voice."Alphonse" Askett (Frankie Howerd) is a hairdresser who is also the operational leader of a gang of crooks who are led behind the scenes by an invisible mastermind (voiced by Stratford Johns). He gives instructions to Askett about the robbery, Operation Windfall, using a variety of James Bond- like communications devices—including a converted showerhead. The crooks hide the loot in Hamingwell Grange, a deserted country mansion, and after waiting for the hue and cry to die down they return to collect the numerous mailbags which contain £2. However, following a Labour Partyelection triumph, the house has been converted into a new home for St Trinian's School for Girls. The crooks decide to infiltrate the school by sending Askett's delinquent daughters, Lavinia and Marcia Mary, to St Trinian's as pupils, with instructions to case the joint to find a means of recovering the money, secretly, from its hiding place.

The crooks' subsequent attempt to retrieve the mailbags on Parents' Day, disguised as caterers, results in a climactic train chase between the robbers and the girls. A sub- plot is the affair between the headmistress of St Trinian's and the Minister, who uses his influence to corruptly obtain a large government grant for re- housing the school, following the latest fire, thus enabling it to move into the mansion. This angers his staff who are normally Conservatives but who, early in the film, are seen excitedly watching Labour win the election, as they believe St Trinians will be shut down by a Labour government. This aspect of the story was probably the reason why the Ministry of Education became the fictional "Ministry of Schools" in this film, to avoid a possible action for defamation by the real Minister of Education.[citation needed]Synopsis[edit]A gang, whose unseen boss (voiced by Stratford Johns) directs them via radio, steal £2.

Hamingwell Grange, and then awaits instructions on when and how to collect the money. Ministry of Education officials, although Conservatives, are happy when the Labour Party wins the election, as they are sure the Labour policy will be to close all the private schools, including St. Trinian's. However, the new Minister of Schools, Sir Horace Bradford (Raymond Huntley), whose lover, we soon find out, is St. Trinian's Headmistress Amber Spottiswood (Dora Bryan), shocks the officials including the Deputy Minister Manton Bassett (Richard Wattis) and Butters, Controller of Schools, Public, Females, Second Category, Southern (Peter Gilmore) by giving St. Trinian's £8. 0,0. Spottiswood uses the grant to purchase Hamingwell Grange and then goes about regrouping her staff: Deputy Headmistress Mabel Radnage (Barbara Couper); Maths Mistress Veronica Bledlow (Elspeth Duxbury); Games Mistress Magda O'Reilly (Maggie Rennie - married to actor Michael Rennie; French Mistress Albertine (Carole Ann Ford); Art Mistress Susie Naphill (Margaret Nolan); Music Mistress Drunken Dolly (Jean St. Clair); and Chairman of the Board of Directors Flash Harry Hackett (George Cole).

At the new school, Harry sets up a betting establishment and Spottiswood's new school supplies arrive, which include slot machines, and erotic books for the new library. In London, hairdresser and gang leader Alfred (Alphonse) Askett (Frankie Howerd) gets instructions from the boss to retrieve the loot that night and regroups his men: Chips (Larry Martyn) his hairdresser assistant; Willy the Jelly- Man (Norman Mitchell), a toastmaster; Leonard "Len the Ledger" Edwards (Desmond Walter- Ellis), a bank manager; Gilbert the Wheel (Reg Varney), a driving instructor; Big Jim (Arthur Mullard); Maxie (Cyril Chamberlain); and two others. They go to Hamingwell Grange and find it occupied by the St. Trinian's School, whose staff and girls drive them away. Alfred contacts the boss and reports this calamity. The boss tells Alfred to enroll his daughters, Lavinia (uncredited, but possibly Susan Jones)[1] and Marcia Mary (Maureen Crombie) at St. Trinian's, in order to get information about the school schedule.

Once there, they break into the Headmistresses' office, find out that a parent's day celebration will soon be held outdoors leaving the school empty, and radio their father with this information. The boss puts in a low bid, and wins the catering contract; the gang, posing as the catering staff, is to retrieve the money after lunch, while everyone is attending the entertainment program outdoors. Days before the celebration Rose (uncredited), while raiding the pantry, sees the school dog emerge from a hole in the wall with a wad of money; she goes through the hole, finds the stolen money and takes some. The next day at Harry’s betting parlour, where he is assisted by Georgina (Portland Mason, James Mason’s daughter - 1st on left) and an unnamed girl (Ingrid Boulting – Roy Boulting’s stepdaughter – far left)[2] she places a £5. In London, Bassett and Butters tell the Minister that the school supplies noted on the bills as nature books and laboratory supplies are, in fact, very sexy books and slot machines. The Minister dismisses their claims leaving Bassett and Butters dismayed.

Eric the Liftman (Michael Ripper) suggests they provide evidence that there is only partying going on at St. Trinian's, by taking pictures. Bassett and Butters agree, and Eric goes along as photographer. That night, when Rose goes to raid the pantry, Harry follows her, sees the bags of money, and connects them with the train robbery and the £1.

The Ministry men arrive and take a picture of the sixth form girls partying, then go to the Headmistress to tell her of the impending problem she faces. When they knock at her door the Minister answers and tries to explain away his presence there by saying he has come to the celebration early in order to investigate their claims. When Spottiswood asks him to come back to her, the men realize she is the Minister's concubine, and foresee the end of his career. The Minister is worried about a scandal, so Spottiswood has the girls kidnap the Ministry trio. In London, the boss contacts Alfred with the escape plan via truck, train, and boat. On celebration day the Minister is still worried.

Spottiswood tells him to stop worrying: she will have the sixth form girls take some suggestive pictures with the Ministry men, and agrees when he says that would be blackmail.