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4- The Great Train Robbery

In the early hours of august 8, 1963, the night mail train from Glasgow to London’s King’s Cross station was making good time. But for the driver, fifty – eight - old Jack Mills, and his assistant, twenty – six – year - old David Whitby, this would be a night they would remember for the rest of their lives. Mills especially, would always be a sick man and. Indeed,would die young, after what was about to happen.

Nearly all the train’s twelve coaches were used as offices for the royal mail, for sorting the letters and packets into groups for different towns and cities, One special coach – for valuable packets – was carrying 128 bags of old money. The money was old banknotes which were on their way to the Royal Mint – the place where banknotes are made – tobe destroyed.
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the first train to be
robbed was in America.
On October 6, 1866,
four brothers - John, Simeon,
William and Frank Reno –
stopped the rain near seymour,
Indiana, and stole 10,000 dollars.

At 3.03 a.m., almost eighty kilometres from London and near the small village of Cheddington, Jack Mills suddenly saw a red signal. He immediately brought his engine to a stop. It wasunusual to find a red signal here, so David Whitby got out of the engine to walk to the emergency telephone, which was behind a signal box. But two men in black balaclava helmets (later know to be Buster Edwards and Bob Welch) came out of the darkness ans pushed him down on the ground at the side of the railway. One man told Whitby. ‘If you shout, I’ll kill you!’

Two men climbed into the engineand Jack Mills tried to fight them. One of the men hit Mills over the head.
Meanwhile, others in the gang quietly and efficiently unfastened the ten sorting coaches at the back of the train, leaving just the front two fastened to the engine.
The valuable packets coach was the second of these.

David Whitby was brought back and the robbers made Jack Mills drive the train very slowly to BridegoBridge, 600 metres down the railway. They left the other ten coaches behind – the seventy sorters still working inside them did not realize what was happening.

Other gang members wearing balaclavas and army uniforms were waiting at the bridge with Land Rovers and a three-tonne army lorry. They had tried something white to a stick by the railway to mark the place where they wanted the engine tostop.
They broke the windows of the valuable packets coach and made the Post Office sorters lie sown on the floor Next, the robbers passed 120 bags of old banknotes out into the darkness.
Fifteen minutes later, the train robbers put handcuffs on Mills and Whitby and warned them not to try to escape for at least half an hour. Then, leaving eight bags behind, they disappeared into the night.Español: Pagina 1

4 - El gran robo del tren

En las primeras horas del 8 de agosto de 1963, el tren correo de la noche de Glasgow a la estación de Kings Cross de Londres estaba haciendo buen tiempo. Pero para el conductor, de cincuenta y ocho años de edad, Jack Mills, y su asistente, de veintiséis años de edad, David Whitby, esta sería una noche que se recordará por el resto de susvidas. Mills sobre todo, siempre sería un hombre enfermo y, de hecho, iba a morir joven, después de lo que iba a suceder.

Casi todos los trenes de doce autobuses fueron utilizados como oficinas delRoyal Mail, para ordenar las cartas y paquetes en grupos de diferentes pueblos y ciudades, un entrenador especial - para los paquetes de valor -llevaba 128 bolsas de dinero.
El dinero fue antiguosbilletes que estaban en camino a la Real Casa de Moneda - el lugar donde se hacen los billetes de banco - para ser destruidos.

el primer tren que se robaron 
estaba en Estados Unidos. 
El 6 de octubre de 1866, 
cuatro hermanos - Juan, Simeón, 
William y Frank Reno - la lluvia se
detuvo cerca de Seymour,
Indiana, y le robaron 10 mil dólares.

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