Twelve suspects were put on trial in April 1964. More than a decade later, several of them talked to the BBC about the ...

What attracted you to taking on the role of Tommy Butler in The Great Train Robbery? I remembered the great train robbery very well – I think I was 13 at the time and in fact I’d seen Roy ...

A two-part drama which portrays The Great Train Robbery of 8 August 1963, firstly from the point of view of the robbers and then from the point of view of the police who set out to identify and ...

Fourteen years later, in 1978, he was on the BBC's documentary ... and lucrative thefts the UK had ever seen: the Great Train Robbery. Welch and his co-defendants were part of a band who held ...