When Crime Pays
TV & Satellite Week|August 10, 2019

The Great Train Robber who never got caught…

Hannah Davies, Ian Macewan
When Crime Pays

Nearly 60 years on, the Great Train Robbery still captures the nation’s imagination. The notorious heist took place on 8 August 1963, when a Royal Mail express train was stopped in Buckinghamshire and 16 robbers unloaded sacks containing £2.6million in cash – around £51million in today’s money.

The gang members were eventually caught, charged and jailed, including Buster Edwards, Ronnie Biggs and Bruce Reynolds. One man got away with it, however – Danny Pembroke, a career criminal who’d been robbing trains for years.

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