Which train robbers were never caught?

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 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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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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Great Train Robbery, (August 8, 1963), in British history, the armed robbery of £2,600,000 (mostly in used bank notes) from the Glasgow–London Royal Mail Train, near Bridego Bridge north of London.

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On 6 October 1866, brothers John and Simeon Reno staged what is generally believed to be the first train robbery in American history. Their take was $13,000 from an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train in Jackson County, Indiana.

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At around 3.00am on 8 August 1963, a gang of armed criminals boarded a Royal Mail train en route to Euston station in London. Dangerous and organised, they escaped with a staggering £2.6 million (£50 million in today's money).

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Police recovered approximately 10% of the money, although by 1971, when decimalisation led to a change in UK currency, most of the cash that the robbers had stolen was no longer legal tender.

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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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