Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the robbery, 8 August 2013. A brilliantly written narrative history. Illustrated with over 40 contemporary photographs.On 8 August 1963, just about 30 miles north of London, a red light brought the up Traveling Post Office to a halt. A few minutes later, the locomotive and the first two carriages moved slowly forward - with a posse of fifteen extra men on board. It traveled the few hundred yards to Bridego Bridge where it was robbed. The train, the robbers, the railway men, and the postal workers made the headlines as one of British history s most legendary crimes took place. An act of audacity, cunning and dare-devilry, which became a story of tragedy, jinx, and violence.

Dubbed 'the Great Train Robbery', it was the cops and robbers story, to end all cops and robbers stories. Like it or not, with its newsworthiness, books, documentaries and feature films, it has an enduring appeal.".