The similarity between the voices of Nick and Bruce Reynolds is amazing!

@mohammedpanju2236

Жыл бұрын

Like Father Like Son, I guess. Two Peas in a Pod.

two years before I was born but love watching anything about this heist, it's so interesting and never get bored of it and watch what I have over and over again.

40 years later you can become a banker and steal a lot more money and instead of going to jail, get praised for your business expertise.

@michaeljohndennis2231

2 ай бұрын

The 80’s was defined as a period of intense selfishness and moral relativism that allowed people to rationalise, explain away, gloss over and make excuses for immoral behaviour of all kinds, the first real sign and symptom of the moral decay of the U.K. as our Irish grandparents generation and the local Catholic Parish Priests constantly told us when we were growing up in Rural Ireland in the 80’s in my teens

One of the great docos. Great cast of characters and some telling insights. Love the soundtrack too.

The Great Train Robbery has always fascinated me ever since i was told it as a kid. A genius plan and a huge heist performed by such a ragtag group of people. It will always remain legendary

@eddie1799

2 жыл бұрын

If u want to know the details , I’m Brian fields grandson so I can tell u abt it all

@daleHarrison93

Жыл бұрын

@@eddie1799 balls of steel, they just dont make them like that anymore.

@CB-xr1eg

Жыл бұрын

@@daleHarrison93 They made 2 grave mistakes. 1) They beat up the train driver which was guaranteed to turn the public against them. 2) They should have burned down the farmhouse themselves instead of arranging for an outsider to do it. Without these 2 mistakes, it was a perfect plan and they would most likely have got away with it.

@annetteelliott1494

5 ай бұрын

Oh me too! Watch it over and over...Ronny Biggs did "well" for himself.😂

I love the constant barrage of 60s music!

@chrismichael5832

3 жыл бұрын

just a shame none of them suit the year- most are from 66-67

It seems to me that the lawyers who accepted stolen money for their services should be arrested and charged for receiving stolen money.

@CB-xr1eg

Жыл бұрын

Some lawyers are as bent as the criminals, that's common knowledge.

Bit Train Spotterish............that loco running along side the motorway was DP2 the most successful diesel loco prototype ever built. And it was built here in England.

@mrvontrips

5 жыл бұрын

The one during the robbery was a class 40 no?

@jacksonirving4594

4 жыл бұрын

Whatever floats your boat mate .or pulls your carriage ..

@shb8124

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrvontrips as far as I'm aware yes.

11:59 What I like from this filmed version of the robbery is that it shows the Driver putting the AWS Isolator switch into the off position, so that control to the train is cut off and it can't be moved. Whether it was actually done in real life or not I can't say, but I thought that was a really nice touch.

@jacksonirving4594

4 жыл бұрын

Well SPOTTED.😝pardon the pun

@wakeupuk3860

2 жыл бұрын

Yes me too, it is such nice touches of 'authenticity' for pivotal moments in history which brings it all to the life and gives the production true value.

@xprs1257

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I used to drive 37’s exactly the same cab as a 40. Yeah that’s the switch that enables / disables the AWS the change end switch the actual isolator is behind the change end switch

I once bought a van from a guy under that bridge.. it broke down on the motorway on the way home. Don't trust that bridge. You will get robbed near it.

@CB-xr1eg

Жыл бұрын

If you buy a van from a guy under a bridge you get what you deserve...mug!

Bruce Reynolds book,, the autobiography of a thief,,magnificent book,, reads like a thriller,, God bless you Bruce!!

@alinlou9236

9 ай бұрын

Nice musiç..

Two of the three railwaymen involved never got over the robbery: Jack Mills Had constant trauma headaches for the rest of his life, David Whitby was traumatised by his track-side assault and subsequent rough treatment and never recovered. Real working class heroes those train robbers.

Brilliant upload....thank you

Didn't live far from here as a kid. Dad took me to the farm and the bridge. Always fascinated me xx

thank you so much for sharing its awesome insight

You're welcome, I'll have lots more on the way. :)

I am a huge history and crime buff and this is the first I have heard of this. Amazing.

@alangazeley5497

10 ай бұрын

The first time you've heard of Great Train Robbery ? Geeeeze - have you been living under a rock !!! Lol Lol

great doco, cheers.

It was doomed from the start...too many links in the chain..there`s always a week link..

@mattoxley-quinn2593

3 жыл бұрын

"weak"

@1bridlington

3 жыл бұрын

@@mattoxley-quinn2593 Thanks for correcting me Matt....

Thank you from Manhattan ©2024

Train video is as dark and high quality as 1950's scifi.

I found this to be a very good documentary. Very interesting and I loved the music from that era. PC. 18. 03. 2018. I was 11 at the time.

"In so many regards one thinks jolly good luck!" quips the upper class twit. And that was the real threat to the establishment - it wasn't just working class people who admired the train robbers... it was everybody. Sure, it was audacious, the cash involved substantial and the train driver unfortunately coshed but none of these factors merited the savage response from the authorities. After all, millions are 'stolen' by the financial sector every week and those 'criminals' get praised and knighted for their blags. Millions are killed and mutilated in Establishment wars for profit and everybody accepts it as 'normal'. It was Audacity that scared the shit out of them. "We are vulnerable and the people are strong," was their fear. Realising how tenuous its position was and how very close to 'anarchy' (their word for the people demanding their rights) the country had become the Establishment clamped down hard with everything they'd got.

@jeffallen255

7 жыл бұрын

One is legal and one is criminal. The one which is legal praises their profits and hurls the worst of verbal and physical punishment on the criminal. Both take monies belonging to other people.

Oh that's why this is popping up in the feed, 60 years ago this month

Looking back, the majority of them would say the money was cursed. The majority of them had lots of misfortune after...one who didn't even have any of the money (bill boal) got caught up in the misfortune and lost his life in prison, for zero reasons. Him and Cordrey were the first to be caught in Bournemouth.

England: Did a runner. U.S.: Ran off. England: Fitted up. U.S.: Framed.

@iseeolly9959

4 жыл бұрын

Scarper ! Or they'll stitch me up like a kipper!

one is speaking loosely and hopes the police aren't watching...... hahahahahaha that guy has me in tears

Music too loud in background

Much of the black & white footage has been taken from "die Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse" a 1965 German 3-part TV series, and I noticed exceprts from Stanley Baker's & Michael Deeley's 1967 "Robbery".

Back then we also had security vans been robbed.

Thank you for playing " Waterloo Sunset" and " Everybodys a Star"! What is the name of the instrumental ( often heard in US theatres mid 70s) around 4:00 ??

Now when Goody revealed the "Ulsterman" - Patrick McKenna there are still open questions. The fact is Tommy Butler kept in his list of biggest suspects one name never mentioned before 2010's: Charles Lilley. What role did Lilley play? Was he money launder? Was he part of that group with McKenna operating behind the scenes, even "mastermind". Lilley was long time friend of one of the robbers, Bob Welch. The fact is that Butler was tailing Lilley as much or even more than any other including Reynolds. Lilley moved later to jewelry business and after fall of 1963 he seemed to have used quite a lot of money as an "ordinary salesman".

these British robbery movies always have trendy music themes.

I canny believe the silly bstds that found over a 100 grand in the woods and handed it in.

@marcel911

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's hard to figure out honesty sometimes isn't it.

@MrDaisydooker

10 жыл бұрын

so what would you have done ?? equal to a million pound in todays money, no comeback no one knows you have it ???

@Enquiringmind777

10 жыл бұрын

Well you've got to ask the question; what would Jesus do? That kinda narrows it down somewhat.

@MrDaisydooker

10 жыл бұрын

Enquiringmind777 are you jesus ??

@Mr3sheds

10 жыл бұрын

The robbery caused such an incredible reaction that anybody spending large amounts of used banknotes would have been reported to the police. It is common knowledge that one person who had nothing to do with the crime went down. The police were under considerable pressure to get a result and were prepared to plant evidence if necessary. It is one thing to steal the money - doing something with it presents another set of problems.

Always been fascinated by the GTR but the mistake in my view was hiding out laying low at the farm. They should've gone back home.

today people commit far worse crimes serve a lot less time in prison

@OkieTeacherr

6 жыл бұрын

David Wolstenholme Yeah. 30 years for taking money. 30 years. Rape a 13 year old and get 2 years. It’s fucked up.

@nicholaskarnani3182

5 жыл бұрын

So had it not belonged to the queen the sentencing would have been less

@fredgrove4220

5 жыл бұрын

But they robbed the Government, and that is worse than war crimes against humanity.

@jimusgrimus

5 жыл бұрын

no they don't.Reynolds did 11 years............people are doing life these days.....and it means life....................

@j-royfitzg-uk1111

4 жыл бұрын

The UK government protect paedos just look at the bbc. Our country's leaders are the scummiest of the lot

Thanks for uploading this. Very interesting. You should also read the true life novel Lost Youth Volume 2 London.

The music is too loud and drowns out the voices ... Otherwise great stuff

Has anyone ever stolen an entire train? That would be gangster

@leftovercrass5210

3 жыл бұрын

@ReelMan yeah, it's hard on video games also

Ronnie Biggs was doing time Until he done a bunk Now he says he's seen the light And he's sold his soul for Punk

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography pictures 📷/reenactments enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Yes a townies mistake not going into south London after the heist!!! Along with telling the tied rail 🚆 car postal 📪 workers. Not to move for 30-minutes. I've total disdain for the low life slime bag. Whom bludgeoned engineer Jack mills. Hopefully he had a life time of hard ships & troubles.

Bruce Reynolds looks like a young Michael Caine; Gordon Goody looks like an old Richard Harris.

@degsy1213

4 жыл бұрын

They met each other in Mexico briefly while Reynolds was on the run and Caine was filming there…"Steal a train?..Bladdy Hell..I ownly towld you to blowe the bladdy doors off"

No wonder the loot weighed so much, it was mostly 1 and 5 pound notes!

@als_pals

7 жыл бұрын

theedrstrangelove think about the inflation though, the officer in this says he got paid £10 per week.

@jacksonirving4594

4 жыл бұрын

Aye ..if it was pound coins they be fucked ..

Playing music on the video from a different era, the robbery was 1963, not 1966 or 1967.

@antonydavid3885

5 жыл бұрын

Can you tell me the name of the songs? Cause I think they're sick

@andrewrees8749

3 жыл бұрын

Does it really matter, that much..

@herbertpetrillo485

Жыл бұрын

@@antonydavid3885 one sounds like from NFL films.

I'm surprised how well spoken Charmian Biggs is. Her English is way better than the robbers' English: 26:20

Anyone ever see the 1967 movie based on this event with Stanley Baker? There were some scenes from that movie in this documentary.

@jimusgrimus

8 жыл бұрын

+Glenn Gregory It was shot on the closed Great Central Railway.........the engine in that film is at the Tyseley preservation centre................

@schusterlehrling

8 жыл бұрын

+Glenn Gregory No, actually they used scenes from German movies about the robbery.

@jimusgrimus

8 жыл бұрын

They did on some of this documentary.......but rest assured the 1967 film with Stanley Baker, used the recently closed Great Central line. That film even used a Class 40 loco D318, which is now at Tyseley in Birmingham

I’ve been fascinated by the great train robbery one of the best robberies ever attempted they are legends

Always been fascinated by this. I have a warped sense of humor about Ronnie and I don't apologize for it. RIP Ronnie Biggs (1929-2013).

ive read bruces book , its a good read.

They stuffed up when they mentioned the time that they needed to get away. & they should have set fire to their hideout house and they would have gotten away with it

The video might have had some merit if it wasn't for the brain dead noise ruining the soundtrack. I endured less than two minutes of it before pressing NEXT.

Legends

i like the way the robbers paid for their defence with the robbery money !! the legal people took it though !!

@mrjohnop9657

2 жыл бұрын

Which makes them law breakers as they are then receiving stolen gods ie the money from the robbery

My Mum knew Charmaine in OZ. They never spoke of anything but the weather kids ect. Mum said she was always very nice and were on first name basis.

Needlessly coshing the train driver must have doubled their sentences.

That's £375 million £440000 in todays money, wow

I see they used the East Lancs Railway for this :)

@clyde294

3 жыл бұрын

Geek

"You have to be 'educated' to have a lot of money" wise words Mrs Briggs, wise words. As an ex working class Cockney who got him self out of the street, did courses in the RAF, went on to become a Civil Engineering Technician Engineer, a Teacher, an IT Trainer and Project Manager who came across a lot of high ranking and very well off people - who found in essence were no different from working class people. The main difference was how they used, thought about and applied knowledge they got along the way. Met some very rich people, who many like me came from the streets but all were very canny and made the effort to learn a wide range of skills and knowledge and how it should be used and that was not just University 'education' but life education. As in the partner BBC film of A Robber's Tale at the end when Tommy Butler is sat across from Bruce Reynolds he rightly says "Stealing that much, you must have known, you would never get away with it, it was not British Rail you took on but the country" and "All that planning but you did not give a second thought what you would all do with so much money, that was just stupid" and he was right. When young I got caught shoplifting, and after a visit from the police who gave me a warning he said to me "Son, if you are going to steal anything, steal something 'f****** big that is worth a fortune but you can sell and nobody will know, do it on your own with nobody else helping you, do it so with something people will not know you have stolen it, hide the money or put it in a bank and wait 25 years to spend it, when you do spend it, spend just a little bit of it, never let anyone know how you got the money ever". I replied "Be no bloody point in stealing then, if that is the outcome of doing so". He replied "Exactly son" that was me at 13 being 'educated". My proudest achievements in life and they have been quite a few, is the very tough teenagers I taught in a Nottingham City school who I often told this story to and other 'Cockney' words of wisdom that my family taught me - for many of them (not all) went in and they did not go into a life of crime.

I went to the bridge . Brill police station and the farm last week . Got told sod off at the farm.

Stolen money leaves a hole in your pocket.

The fatal mistake was remaining close to where the robbery took place. The ringleaders should have returned to London the same night thus giving themselves an alibi that couldn't be broken.

nice

What's the song at 30.20?

@misterwhipple2870

Жыл бұрын

"Liar Liar" by The Castaways, an American band from Minneapolis. It was a minor hit in 1965. "Liar, Liar! Pants On Fire! Your nose is longer than the telephone wire!" It got to Number 12 on the charts. They had a few other songs that never charted. This was their only hit.

Tavy@ to be honest i thought the stopping of the train alone at 2.30am when it was doing 60mph at least was genius. People say ye but thats easy ye just cover up the lites then put yer own red lite on. Yes but thats after every one watched the robbery and saw that being done. But not many people would have thought of it. Plus there was more to it than just that. They had to rigg the red light onto wires in that box for it to work. It was a brilliant job. The greatest i have ever seen done. Its a pity they all didnt stick to the rules and kept there gloves on. They should never have told the railway man on the embankment dont move for half an hour. Then the guy that got paid alot of cash to burn the farm but got cold feet. Thats what got them cought. The goverment wanted to change the money, to make the robbery money worthless. But said it would cost to much. They were addamant gordon goody was fitted up with claiming hes prints were on bottles. Goody never took hes gloves off once. But tax payers money goes missing all the time especialy at the huge building in london lol. And no one bats an eye lid. Something to do with politicians!

What is the point of having loud noise in the background when people are speaking? I guess, to make sure you can't understand what is being said. Very annoying.

Money is good but im watching this just to hear that a train was on time

I was 5 years old when they did the job, and everyone spoke about it for years afterwards. Rightly or wrongly, they were seen by many as audacious anti-heroes (me included!). They just didn't properly plan out what they were going to do afterward. They should have arranged new id's beforehand, cleaned out the farmhouse within 24 hours, burned it to the ground, covered their tracks and then scattered to the four winds...and never, ever looked back.

Ok who wants to try this again...?

Seen by some as colourful "Highwaymen" of old but they were no Robin Hoods. Career crims through and through.

I live in Oxfordshire so this was fairly close apart from I'm 13

@connerstevens2507

5 жыл бұрын

Banbury

Apart from the train driver! Then I think this is the best crime ever. Every credit to them

enjoyed watching . RIP Ronnie

What is the music

anyone know the name of the song at 3:35 ish

@ROBDV-7-9-6-5

4 жыл бұрын

The Kinks -Waterloo Sunset

I highly, highly doubt that train driver thought they were 'thorough gentleman' after being coshed over the head ffs.

easy come easy go! Whats really fkd up is they sat and did nothing while a innocent man got convicted, and in the end died in jail.

@humanforfreedom9583

5 жыл бұрын

The police are the ones who are supposed to review cases and ensure innocent people are released and the guilty stay in prison. If they had spoke up he still would of died in prison, people spoke up for the Birmingham six and they still done 18 years

BAGS of cash hanging in the air???? Who can resist?

The original "Fun lovin' criminals"...?!

Exactly this happened after 1990in my country Czech Republic when started consumerism, no much Street crime but heavy one.Criminals not afraid to use even hand grenades and rocket launchers.All because prison is like hotel, three regular meal a day and comfortable bed!!!

How do you fit up a yellow paint mark on the soles of shoes of a man who's not even in the country?

oh nice video, i like when the robbers hut the driver and the train are steal

They were expecting about 10 to 12 years . I was 5 when it happened . My earljest memory . An d walnut black a x white whi h took about 5 mins 2 warm up .

They should've based it on the book

You have to go and get the money any which way you can if you look at the amount of money the government take from people it only amounts to 2 persent so you do what you can

Daft caper really, planning what to do with the money was just as - if not more important than planning the job itself, as Bruces son says it was a boys-own adventure and by all accounts should've just stayed in the comics, great adventure tho

Music @2:15 please anyone.

My dad was really good friend of Bruce Reynolds they meet in borstal as kid's He would have been a great train robber but Dad was doing five years at the time He was lucky but uncle Bruce you are sadly missed sleep tight sweet prince always love Jamie and family

Poor guy who got swept up in the cop's exuberance & momentum to catch "everyone." too bad his family couldn't sue the gov't. or the real thieves all tell of his noninvolvement. I guess there really isn't any honor among thieves!

Bruce’s son is the image of Robbie from Eastenders

they messed with the queen's money

i cant think of any big robbery that the thieves have got away it,

@bonsaibiker5378

6 жыл бұрын

theres been a fair few where most of the money was never recovered and i guess the ones where they get away the cops keep quiet about cos it dosent look good

@Gencturk92

6 жыл бұрын

i think it was more easier them days to get away with than it is today, with all technology improvement and so on.

@hugolindum7728

6 жыл бұрын

Brinks Matt.

Freddie foreman got involved in many crimes yet only got light sentences for those he committed. Train robbers would not have wanted him in the gang

song name at the start pls

@AlanRandallHD

10 жыл бұрын

thanks

@ROBDV-7-9-6-5

4 жыл бұрын

Green Day -Working Class Hero

is this supposed to be a documentary or a music video?

Anybody got an American translation for the English job title 'bookie' ?

@jasonantigua6825

7 жыл бұрын

Douglas Wallace Someone that takes bets !

@misterwhipple2870

Жыл бұрын

It means the same thing.

Real life Grand Theft Auto London

What happened to Busters wife and daughter ?

did 'pops' the would be train driver get away with his share of the loot, he's never mentioned as one of those found guilty..

@bonsaibiker5378

6 жыл бұрын

yes he did :)

Don't Bother.

Very fair as it clearly destroyed the myth of the 'gentlemen robbers' and instead focussed on what they really were - thugs who should have been locked up. The fact that they can even claim that the driver was exaggerating his injuries show them for what they really were. In my opinion, the sentences were too weak.

@Howard.Stern.

Жыл бұрын

The sentences were far too weak. All of them returned to crime aside from one. They were career criminals and thugs.

@HistoryonYouTube

Жыл бұрын

@@Howard.Stern. That is what I think as well Howard. A number of them got involved in drugs and further robberies.