How Britain’s Great Train Robbers Stole Millions and Disappeared

In August 1963, a gang of criminals stopped a Royal Mail train in the English countryside and pulled off one of Britain’s most infamous robberies. Their target was the high-value mail carriage. In a matter of minutes, the gang stole around £2.6 million — an enormous fortune at the time — before escaping into the night. But the robbery was only the beginning. A hidden farmhouse, fingerprints, discarded evidence and a massive police investigation would eventually lead detectives toward men including Bruce Reynolds and Ronnie Biggs. In this episode of Crime Unknown, we reconstruct how the Great Train Robbery was planned, how the gang stopped the train, how the money was taken, where the robbers hid afterward, and how police slowly began putting the case together. Inside the cases you thought you knew. Chapters 00:00 The Great Train Robbery 00:30 The Royal Mail Train 01:00 The High-Value Carriage 01:20 The Plan Takes Shape 01:50 Stopping the Train 02:20 Taking Control 02:50 £2.6 Million Stolen 03:20 The Getaway 03:50 The Hideout Farm 04:20 The Mistakes They Left Behind 04:50 Police Find the Evidence 05:20 The Suspects 05:40 Ronnie Biggs 06:00 The Investigation Closes In 06:30 Arrests and Convictions 06:50 What Happened to the Robbers?