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How The Great Train Robbery Worked

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The Bolar Hat Gang in London

This is the 1960s. Like the early 1960s that this is going on. The Bolar Hat Gang tried to rob a train at first, but it didn't work so well and they got away. There was one specific train that this gang targeted and for good reason. It had been running since the 1830s between Glasgow, Scotland and London. For like 150, 100, almost 150 years. They thought, well, we'll take all the mail from Glasgow that's going to London and we'll sort it along the way.

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