The daring robbery took place just after 03:00 on 8 August 1963. The first step the criminals had taken was to cut the phone lines to stop an alarm being raised. They then rigged the train signals ...

This week's film is the 1978 British heist comedy, "The Great Train Robbery." It was directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay, adapting his own 1975 historical novel of the same ...

The Great Train Robbery laid a critical entertainment foundation in 1903 as the first action film ever with a final shot that still resonates.

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is a crime so absurd that it effectively spawned its own genre of heist films — but you probably didn’t know that this iconic crime actually has direct ties to ...

The Great Train Robbery: 'My commute cost me £265.20 a day' Story by Kirsten Robertson • 6mo. J ohnbosco Nwogbo has had enough of train travel in the UK.

As the civil war entered its second year in 1862, it was still possible to imagine that the war would be short and relatively bloodless. But nothing that the Union or the Confederacy had ...

Britain in the 1960s was captivated by the daring of the Great Train Robbery, and the sheer scale of the money stolen. But when the accused men stood trial in April 1964, the judge was determined ...