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The Great Train Robbery: A Notorious Heist that Made Criminals into Heroes
TLDR The Great Train Robbery was a famous train heist in England that turned the criminals into working class heroes. The gang targeted a specific train and violently attacked the conductor, making off with stolen money.
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The Great Train Robbery was a significant train heist in England that made the criminals into working class heroes and gained a lot of media attention.
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The Great Train Robbery involved a gang called the Bowler Hat Gang and the South Coast Raiders who targeted a specific train called the Up Special, which was a mail sorting facility on wheels that transported money from Glasgow to London without much security.
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The code name Ulster man was believed to be someone on the inside of the train and post industry who provided information to the gang, and he was later identified as Patrick McKenna, who gave the money to the Catholic church.
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The train robbers violently attacked the train conductor, causing him to suffer from headaches for the rest of his life and ultimately leading to his death.
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The train robbers stopped the train, hit the conductor over the head, and forced him to drive the train to a drop point where they offloaded the stolen money onto getaway vehicles.
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The train robbers were able to escape with the stolen money and hide out in a farmhouse for eight days, but their plan was foiled when a neighbor noticed their suspicious behavior and alerted the authorities.
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The train robbers were caught one by one, with some remaining tight-lipped during the trial, while the public was captivated by the ongoing arrests and the trial itself, which involved evidence planting and false confessions.
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Several of the train robbers, including Boil, were wrongly convicted and received long prison sentences, with Boil dying in prison, while only one robber, Cordray, admitted guilt and turned in his share of the money.
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Ronald Biggs, one of the train robbers, escaped to Australia and then Brazil, where he lived openly as a fugitive for many years, unable to be extradited to Great Britain, much to the frustration of British authorities.
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Most of the train robbers had tragic endings, with one committing suicide, one dying in a medical trial, and one being murdered by a hitman in Spain, but some of them retired or went back to their normal lives.
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