early 19th century, trains have often been the target of robbery, in which the goal is to steal money or other valuables. Train robbery was especially common...
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Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.61 million (calculated to present-day value of £69 million - or $73,547,750) from a Royal Mail train travelling...
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The Great Train Robbery may refer to: Great Train Robbery (1963), of £2.6 million from a British train Great Gold Robbery, of gold worth £12,000 from...
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The First Great Train Robbery (known in the United States as The Great Train Robbery) is a 1978 British heist comedy film directed by Michael Crichton...
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The Sallins Train robbery occurred in Ireland on 31 March 1976 when the Cork to Dublin mail train was robbed near Sallins in County Kildare. Approximately...
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The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent film made by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company. It follows a gang of outlaws who...
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The Great Train Robbery is a best-selling 1975 historical novel written by Michael Crichton, his third novel under his own name and his thirteenth novel...
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The Wilcox train robbery also known as the Wilcox Holdup was a train robbery that took place in the early morning of June 2, 1899 in the vicinity of Wilcox...
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Kakori conspiracy (redirect from Kakori Train Robbery)
The Kakori Train robbery (prapt of Kakori conspiracy) was a train robbery that took place at Kakori, a village near Lucknow, on 9 August 1925, during the...
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The Fairbank train robbery occurred on the night of February 15, 1900, when some bandits attempted to hold up a Wells Fargo express car at the town of...
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The Great Train Robbery is a two-part British television miniseries, written by Chris Chibnall, that was first broadcast on BBC One on 18 and 19 December...
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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery is a British comedy film, directed by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, written by Sidney and Leslie Gilliat, and...
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the air), and "steaming" (organized robbery on underground train systems). In Canada, the Criminal Code makes robbery an indictable offence, subject to...
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The Gads Hill Train Robbery (also known as the Great Missouri Train Robbery) was a crime committed by the James–Younger Gang in Gads Hill, Missouri. In...
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The Small Train Robbery (Mala pljačka vlaka) is a Yugoslavian film, a western parody directed by Dejan Šorak and starring Bata Živojinović, Miodrag Krivokapić...
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Crunchie (redirect from Crunchie train robbery)
New Zealand's longest-running television advertisement, the "Crunchie Train Robbery" which won many awards and ran in unchanged form for over 20 years from...
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Train Robbery is a 1905 American silent Western film directed by Edwin S. Porter. It is a parodic sequel/remake to Porter's 1903 film The Great Train...
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Bishnu Shrestha (section Train robbery incident)
Raksha Padak medal, both awarded for his gallant conduct during an armed train robbery. Shrestha was born in Bachchha Deurali Khola, ward no. 9 of Parbat district...
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Booth. The story is a heavily fictionalised version of the 1963 Great Train Robbery. The film was produced by Stanley Baker and Michael Deeley, for Baker's...
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Great Train Robbery, with Sean Connery portraying Pierce. South Eastern Railway (SER) In 1855 the South Eastern Railway (SER) ran a boat train service...
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Dalton Gang (section Alila Robbery)
were brothers. The gang specialized in bank and train robberies. During an attempted double bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1892, two of the brothers...
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The Andalusian mail train robbery, also known as the crime on the Andalusian express, consisted of a robbery and murder that took place on 11 April 1924 ...
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James–Younger Gang (redirect from James gang passenger train robberies)
Missouri, the home of most of the members. Membership fluctuated from robbery to robbery, as the outlaws' raids were usually separated by many months. As well...
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The Baxter's Curve Train Robbery, also known as the Sanderson Train Robbery, occurred in 1912 near the town of Sanderson, Texas. Ben Kilpatrick and his...
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The Brink's-Mat robbery was one of the largest robberies in British history, with £26 million (equivalent to £111 million in 2023) worth of gold bullion...
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Adair, Oklahoma (section Dalton Gang Train Robbery)
chief of the Cherokee Nation police. Realizing the robbery was underway, the guards got off the train opposite the depot, and had a brief gun battle with...
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including: The Andromeda Strain (1969), The Terminal Man (1972), The Great Train Robbery (1975), Congo (1980), Sphere (1987), Jurassic Park (1990), Rising Sun...
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Bruce Reynolds (category Great Train Robbers)
English criminal who masterminded the 1963 Great Train Robbery. At the time it was Britain's largest robbery, netting £2,631,684, equivalent to £69 Million...
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Reno Gang (category Train robbers)
Though short-lived, the gang carried out the first three peacetime train robberies in U.S. history. Most of the stolen money was never recovered. The...
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Verdi, Nevada (section 1870 train robbery)
first train robbery in the West". www.nevadamagazine.com. Retrieved August 22, 2020. Greenhaw, Charles (October 6, 1998). "How to rob a train (and how not...
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