The Thrilling Tale of the Great Train Robbery

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  • Опубліковано 4 січ 2023
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  • @ScarletRebel96
    @ScarletRebel96 Рік тому +81

    They probably needed the money to get to Tahiti

  • @binnes117
    @binnes117 Рік тому +23

    Funny story- my grandfather helped play the soundtrack for the movie that was made about the Great Train Robbery ( the film was made a few years after it happened). He was arrested after trying to buy a piano with his wife, who upon noticing he was hesitating over the price, said (quite loudly and without thinking I guess) "you have the money from the Great Train robbery". Obviously, she meant the money from the film, but the staff in the shop immediately notified police and he was taken in, as they hadn't caught all the suspects from the ACTUAL train robbery. He was let go once he explained the misunderstanding. Hilarious to think that even for a short moment, my granddad was considered a suspect.

    • @hammerheadtheseawing3263
      @hammerheadtheseawing3263 Рік тому +1

      Oh my god that’s hilarious, it’s always great when you have cool stories from your relatives to share

  • @eslm-studios2996
    @eslm-studios2996 4 місяці тому +1

    Noticed you were wearing an Isle of Man Railways shirt. Glad to see you traversed our rails at one point.

  • @gamerboy6787
    @gamerboy6787 Рік тому +4

    Nice. Enjoyed this one thoroughly. Thank you guys.

  • @tylers1128
    @tylers1128 Рік тому +9

    Could we hear about Thomas Blood trying to steal the crown jewels? Great content 👌

    • @DecadesVideos
      @DecadesVideos  Рік тому +9

      Brilliant idea, we will get a little bit of research done sometime. Got hundreds of ideas to sort through at any given moment so it's refreshing to almost lucky dip it and see what topic comes up next hahaha

  • @Nomad416
    @Nomad416 Рік тому +6

    The Van Der Linde Gang would have gotten away with it.

  • @KingBritish
    @KingBritish Рік тому +2

    "I'm not a controller yet" haha. Bit of light hearted fun, I like it.

  • @gtan431
    @gtan431 7 місяців тому

    Born in the same year and grew up hearing countless stories. Another well produced documentary...well done young chap.

  • @hammerheadtheseawing3263
    @hammerheadtheseawing3263 Рік тому +5

    I’m not sure if it would be popular but I would love to see a video about British railroad history in general

    • @connorjonesdecades521
      @connorjonesdecades521 Рік тому +3

      That’s a long term project in which we do intend to do at some point

  • @JamesDickson-vs5of
    @JamesDickson-vs5of 5 місяців тому +1

    Iv only got one thing to say conner " Romanian dead lifts" 2x per week, you will be glad you did, I promise buddy, good video, i was brought up watching and listening all about it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️

  • @connorjonesdecades521
    @connorjonesdecades521 Рік тому +8

    This is going to be a big one!

  • @GreyOcean7
    @GreyOcean7 Рік тому +2

    That intro...🤣 Nice job guys. Cheers.
    EDIT: Still laughing...

  • @brandankankel5209
    @brandankankel5209 Рік тому +1

    Really enjoyed this one fellas! Keep em coming

  • @thenorseguy2495
    @thenorseguy2495 Рік тому +5

    Great content. This video deserves alot of views

    • @DecadesVideos
      @DecadesVideos  Рік тому +1

      Maybe one day :) Thanks for your support!

  • @leeadams.1971
    @leeadams.1971 Рік тому +1

    Went to North Wales to see the actual truck with the secret base where the money stored.
    Lovely to see the truck which was involved in the Robbery.

  • @BMMEC6000
    @BMMEC6000 Рік тому +3

    Oh boy here we go!

  • @kelvinconnie
    @kelvinconnie 7 місяців тому

    Fab video mate, well presented and information I never knew, well done

  • @mummycool1
    @mummycool1 Рік тому +2

    Brilliant video, so interesting & presented so clearly. Loving this chennel. Nice work guys.

  • @reecenotryhs
    @reecenotryhs Рік тому +1

    Jones having a grand ol' time with them levers, we love to see it!

  • @andrewridgway2824
    @andrewridgway2824 10 місяців тому +1

    Great video. And thanks for today lads, your a credit to human kind :£

    • @DecadesVideos
      @DecadesVideos  10 місяців тому

      Absolute pleasure to meet you today, Andrew! I gave you a follow back on Instagram too, that way we can stay in touch. Hope to see you around.
      - Ethan

  • @killervic7379
    @killervic7379 Рік тому +2

    Great work

  • @kenstevens5065
    @kenstevens5065 Рік тому

    There were a few books published on the 50th anniversary of the robbery. They didn't in my view give much new information about the actual robbery but offer a fascinating insight into our pre digital world and confirm what I remember as a teenager at the time. The gang put an offer in for a house, their hide out, and obtained the keys (for decoration purposes) before contracts exchanged, spent large amounts of cash on cars etc....few people had bank accounts back then and credit cards didn't exist, cash sale was the norm, travelled by car at night when there was little or no traffic about on false number plates. The list goes on. As to the convictions I doubt any would stand up in today's criminal justice system.

  • @andreslast2braincells332
    @andreslast2braincells332 Рік тому +1

    Dutch needed that money for his mango farm in Tahiti

  • @martinwebb969
    @martinwebb969 Рік тому +3

    Who on earth is Ronnie Briggs (several times)?

    • @DecadesVideos
      @DecadesVideos  Рік тому +1

      Jones cannot read & he's stubborn so once something wrong is in his head he says it the wrong way anyway

    • @colinmiller7671
      @colinmiller7671 Рік тому

      @@DecadesVideos There are lots of mis pronounced words and names in this story

    • @hamerjohn
      @hamerjohn 3 місяці тому

      biggs not briggs

  • @user-ln4ji4ht9b
    @user-ln4ji4ht9b Рік тому

    Great video 👍

  • @Moza960
    @Moza960 6 місяців тому +1

    Briggs ?? I thought it was Biggs 😂

  • @andrewbenson7199
    @andrewbenson7199 8 місяців тому

    Brilliantly made video.

  • @christophercrowley9873
    @christophercrowley9873 Рік тому

    I've got a good true story for you. When my mother was pregnant with me my dad and her went to see Engelbert Humperdinch at the London Palladium in 1990. Charlie Richardson happened to be there and kept looking at my dad. Eventually he said to him "Were you one of the great train robbers?" He knew he had seen him somewhere before but couldn't remember. It just so happens that my dad was looking for his alsatian that went missing and rumours about the Richardsons had an alsatian. He only drove into his place unannounced and Charlie was fuming as you could imagine. My dad was talking to him for a little while and the last thing he said to Charlie was that he had a nice place which Charlie didn't answer. My dad was absolutely without fear in his youth. Lol

  • @jackryan4313
    @jackryan4313 Рік тому +1

    Show someone hospitality and open up your home, 24 years. Aiding and abetting in a train jacking, 3 years.

  • @natalieerib
    @natalieerib Рік тому +2

    Oh ain’t that a little… old fashioned nowadays?

  • @srfrodoxd
    @srfrodoxd Рік тому

    My theory regarding who gave the intel on the train robbery is a man that was often described as "discouraged man"

  • @williamrae9954
    @williamrae9954 8 місяців тому

    Nothing moved in Glasgow without The Godfather's ,Arthur Thompson, knowledge, so i wouldn't be surprised if it was his job,and being a friend of the Krays,no one would know, or speak out?

  • @mothrasbestie
    @mothrasbestie Рік тому

    ahhhh a Tahitian vacation in the making i see.

  • @andyb.1026
    @andyb.1026 10 місяців тому

    Rumour was that Colin Chapman, the Lotus team owner was the Brains 😊

  • @ianburnett7333
    @ianburnett7333 9 місяців тому

    To stop a train all you need is a set of battery jump leads.

  • @bulgaria681
    @bulgaria681 10 місяців тому +1

    The Dutch grandson 💀

  • @user-fk2ek3tx6c
    @user-fk2ek3tx6c 6 місяців тому

    It would be nice if you got the names right

  • @Leethebeagle
    @Leethebeagle Рік тому +2

    I know this isnt a maritime history channel but do a video about the ss Edmund Fitzgerald

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy Рік тому +1

      No history is off limits! We’ll give it a gander

    • @Leethebeagle
      @Leethebeagle Рік тому

      @@Fizhy it's unique in the sense of none of the crew survived no one nos what happens

  • @tyr573
    @tyr573 Рік тому +2

    The great Emu war when ?

    • @Fizhy
      @Fizhy Рік тому +6

      Would absolutely love to make a full on video on it to be fair.

    • @connorjonesdecades521
      @connorjonesdecades521 Рік тому +1

      ua-cam.com/video/hJnemEYiTfA/v-deo.html

    • @tyr573
      @tyr573 Рік тому +1

      @@connorjonesdecades521 CINEMA

  • @davecoombs6951
    @davecoombs6951 Місяць тому

    Ronald Biggs not Briggs

  • @coxmosia1
    @coxmosia1 Рік тому

    It's a wonder The Kray brothers weren't involved with this train robbery.

    • @DecadesVideos
      @DecadesVideos  Рік тому

      London, let alone the UK isn't that small!

  • @jasonwellbelove7106
    @jasonwellbelove7106 10 місяців тому

    ronnie biggs not briggs lol lol

  • @jackryan4313
    @jackryan4313 Рік тому +3

    Traumatized so bad from getting robbed that you have a heart attack at 34? Wasn't even his money getting stolen 😂

  • @article21gdpr
    @article21gdpr Рік тому

    Ronald Arthur Biggs

  • @article21gdpr
    @article21gdpr Рік тому +2

    biggs biggs biggs no r biggs RONNIE BIGGS FOR GODS SAKE DO RESEARCH

  • @owenshale8719
    @owenshale8719 Рік тому +1

    And the amazing thing about it is that they didn't hurt anyone and I think they got a raw deal

    • @nathanbowers6364
      @nathanbowers6364 Рік тому +1

      Except they coshed the train driver who was never the same again.

    • @owenshale8719
      @owenshale8719 Рік тому +1

      That's is true but they didn't kill anyone at lest they had class but I do feel bad for the driver

    • @nathanbowers6364
      @nathanbowers6364 Рік тому

      I read or heard a few years back that they used coshes and banned anyone from carrying guns because although hanging had ceased, it hadn't legally been abolished. Judging by the sentences given out, if someone had been killed I bet the whole gang would've been hanged.

    • @kenstevens5065
      @kenstevens5065 Рік тому

      The second man on the loco didn't live long either. I remember it well, the Country was finally dragging itself out of poverty and austerity, things were getting exciting for young people, the Beatles, new fashions, new architecture, more spending power. The fact that this gang screwed an old fashioned, tired and unpopular Government did result in a lot of public sympathy. They were a gang of common criminals after all though. Of course, they never caught the Mr Big!

    • @andyb.1026
      @andyb.1026 10 місяців тому +1

      The Driver was an idiot,, wasn't his money, just let them get on with it 😊

  • @andyb.1026
    @andyb.1026 10 місяців тому +1

    The presenter needs to spend much less time in front of a pc, and far more time outsde and in a gym, sort out the diet and lose lots of weight, or he will die young of obesity 😮😢

    • @DecadesVideos
      @DecadesVideos  10 місяців тому

      Congratulations you just fixed obesity. Well done.

  • @QwertyDFTBA
    @QwertyDFTBA Рік тому

    His DAD worked for a train?!? What kinda disney channel supervillain backstory bs...

  • @okeythisbob
    @okeythisbob Рік тому

    Dutch always has a plan