How many train robbers are still alive?

The death of Great Train Robber Gordon Goody means there are now only two left from the gang of 15 robbers and accomplices involved in the heist – Tommy Wisbey and Bob Welch. Wisbey, now 85, was arrested a month after the August 1963 robbery and was sentenced to 30 years. He was released after 12 years in 1976.



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Piers Paul Read concluded they were all pretty ghastly. But he also alluded to three robbers who have never been apprehended; whom he and Bruce Reynolds called Bill Jennings, Frank Monroe and Alf Thomas. These were, as Read and Reynolds knew, pseudonyms. Alf Thomas's real name was Daniel Pembroke.

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The last major American train robbery was attempted on November 25, 1937, on a Southern Pacific Railroad's westbound Apache Limited out of El Paso, Texas.

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The robbers escaped with an estimated £2.6 million, which would have been worth about £46 million today, which they split amongst themselves. Most of the cash has never been recovered.

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David Hanrahan's 2011 book tells the true story of the audacious 1855 robbery of more than 80 kg of large gold bars and coins from the London Bridge to Folkestone train.

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