On a chilly evening in March 1930, an intriguing challenge was set by Woolf Barnato, the charismatic chairman of Bentley ...

THE Great Train Robbery in 1963 still remains one of the most daring and notorious heists ever carried out in Britain. The gang is estimated to have stolen more than £2.6million – equivalent to ...

But quite a few film historians generally agree that the first action movie ever is The Great Train Robbery, directed by Edwin S. Porter, who also did the film’s cinematography. The vagabonds ...

“Blue Train,” I said, and the guard waved us through. Image Guests arriving for a trip on the Blue Train are welcomed in style at the Cape Town train station. The entire experience is meant to ...

Britain in the 1960s was captivated by the daring of the Great Train Robbery, and the sheer scale of the money stolen. But when the accused men stood trial in April 1964, the judge was determined ...