2023-08-10 00:50:00
On August 8, 1963, an organized group robbed the Glasgow-London train, taking more than 2.5 million pounds sterling.
A UK Post Office convoy was carrying 126 bags of money from banks in Scotland and England.
In the early morning of that day, the carriages stopped at a railway bridge due to a red traffic light.
The engineer got off the transport and saw 17 hooded men ready to carry out the robbery.
The operation, which was carried out in a few minutes, concluded with the theft of 118 bags of money valued at 2 million 632 thousand pounds sterling.
The gang hid on a farm waiting for the police to stop looking for them, but a neighbor alerted authorities to their presence.
Although they couldn’t find them, the robbery had a flaw.
The London police were able to rescue a Monopoly game, which contained the fingerprints of the criminals
After a while, he was able to find 13 of them, although the two leaders of the plan managed to flee.
Bruce Reynolds underwent cosmetic surgery and was able to hide for 5 years in different countries in America, until he died in 2013.
Meanwhile, Ronnie Biggs was wanted for several years until his capture in 2001, when he voluntarily returned to the UK, where he died in 2013.
The case, with great media coverage worldwide, was known as “the robbery of the century”
On August 8, 1963, an organized group robbed the Glasgow-London train, taking more than 2.5 million pounds sterling.
The story is also news on Radio Perfil. Voiceover by Pita Fortín and script by Juan Medina.
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