A Royal Mail train pulled out of Glasgow one night last week, bound for London's Euston station, 401 miles to the south. Aboard were 70 employees of the General Post Office, locked into twelve ...

Detectives at Cheddington Station inspect one of the cars of the traveling post office. Bettmann/CORBIS The train after the initial police investigation in Cheddington, Buckinghamshire.

Windrush line part suspended and minor delays on the District line - Live travel updates from around the capital ...

It was poorly planned and badly executed, so how was the Great Train Robbery recast as the 20th-century’s most audacious crime? ... which had been moved to nearby Cheddington railway station.

The changes in Cheddington will coincide with contactless ticketing being rolled out at a wider total of 96 stations throughout 2025, including London Stansted Airport.

A RETIRED police officer who was born in North Yorkshire and went on to become instrumental in cracking the Great Train Robbery case has died aged 83. Keith Milner was born in Richmond in 1935 and ...

The Great Train Robbery: How it happened. Just after 3am on 8 August, 1963 the night mail train from Glasgow Central to London Euston was stopped in Buckinghamshire by a gang of thieves.

RETIRED police officer Keith Milner, who has died aged 83, was the first detective on scene of the Great Train Robbery. ... he was the first officer to arrive at Cheddington Railway Station.

A railway track worker avoided being hit by a train travelling at 125mph ... The near miss happened on 16 June on the West Coast Main Line between Cheddington and Bletchley stations.

A town in West Sussex will get contactless ticketing at its train station this year as part of a £20m investment in the South East rail network.

A railway worker has been hit and killed by a passenger train. British Transport Police said the man was 22 years old and came from Rhonda, south Wales. The contract worker was on the trackside near ...