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Breaking-News >> TodayHistory August 14, 1963 The largest train robbery occurred in the UK
62 years ago today, August 14, 1963 (June 25, 1963 in the lunar calendar), the largest train robbery occurred in the UK. $5 million worth of cash and jewelry were stolen on a British train in just 15 minutes this morning. A group of gangsters armed with iron bars and guns fled in panic with the loot. They committed perhaps the largest robbery in the world. In the early morning of this morning, a train carrying £ 2.8 million in banknotes traveled from Glasgow to London as per daily routine. When the train fast-forward into the small town of Cheddington on the outskirts of London, it gets a "slow going" signal. The train stopped when the red light was given. At this time, the assistant factory engineer walked to a railway telephone and found that the wires had been cut. He looked around and found himself facing a gun. He was pushed back to the locomotive and found the driver knocked down, unconscious with head injuries. At this time, a gangster wearing a handkerchief and a mask told him not to make a sound, etc. The gangsters unhooked the locomotive and the two carriages in front from the carriages behind. The railway postal inspector in the carriage behind carried out sorting as if nothing had happened, and the two carriages in front were driven to a fork road. Then he moved the money and jewelry in the carriage to a truck that was already waiting. Detectives suspected whether there was an insider, otherwise the gangsters would not have gotten clues. News raw data sources → https://www.abtool.cn/today_detail/1njy.html 17WorldNews[2025.09.14-00:09] 访问:71
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