The Secret Train Robber!
What's on TV|August 10, 2019

Danny Pembroke Jr’s dad was the only Great Train Robber who never got caught…

Hannah Davies, Sean Marland
The Secret Train Robber!

The Great Train Robbery was a criminal plot that still captures the nation’s imagination. On 8 August 1963, a Royal Mail express train was stopped in Buckinghamshire and 16 robbers unloaded dozens of sacks containing £2.6million – around £51million in today’s money.

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