Great Train Robbery

Background

In the early hours of 8 August 1963 a gang of fifteen led by Bruce Reynolds stopped a Royal Mail train from Glasgow to London at Bridego Bridge in Buckinghamshire by tampering with the signals. They escaped with more than £2.6 million, a record sum at the time. The gang used no firearms, but train driver Jack Mills was struck on the head with a metal bar and seriously injured. Fingerprints on a Monopoly board at their hideout, Leatherslade Farm, led to the conviction of most of the robbers; most of the money has never been recovered.

Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Great Train Robbery · Wikipedia: Great Train Robbery (1963)