The Great Train Robbery

Date and time		8th August 1963, 03:03
Place		Bridego Bridge, near Ledburn, which is near Mentmore, Buckinghamshire

Amount stolen		£2,631,684
Number of robbers		15
Farm where the gang "holed up" for two days and where their fingerprints were found (25 miles from the scene)		Leatherslade
The train was going from		Glasgow to Euston
Driver of the train (died 1970 of leukaemia)		Jack Mills
Co–ordinator of the police investigation		DS Gerald McArthur
Sentence given to the robbers (they served half)		30 years
Leader of the gang; escaped to Brazil, but was found five years later		Bruce Reynolds
Escaped to Brazil; returned to Britain 2001 (aged 71) and was recaptured		Ronnie Biggs
Detective Sergeant (of the Metropolitan Police), known for his role in the Great Train Robbery investigation: found Biggs in Brazil, but the Brazilian government refused to extradite him as his girlfriend was pregnant with his child		Jack Slipper
Escaped to Canada, living near Montreal, but was recaptured after his wife phoned her parents in England; murdered in Spain in 1990		Charlie Wilson
Later jailed for 6 years for shooting his father–in–law and injuring his estranged wife		Roy James
Escaped to Mexico, but later gave himself up; found hanged in a lock–up garage near Waterloo station, 29th November 1994		Ronald 'Buster' Edwards
Admitted, in a 2014 documentary, to being the mastermind behind the robbery; died in 2016 aged 85		Gordon Goody

Other robbers: Tom Wisbey, Jimmy White, John Wheatear, Brian Field, Roger Cordrey, Jimmy Hussey, Robert Welch