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Very sadly, the 95-year-old widow of Tommy Thomas, the ticket collector who was very badly beaten by the train robbers on the Irish Mail that night in 1963, died on Wednesday, the very same day as Ronnie Biggs. As you'd expect, it didn't make the headlines! In the aftermath of this week's...

A trailer for BBC One's major new drama about the Great Train Robbery is now online: http://youtu.be/Foyb5HCeM6s The drama airs over two nights, the 18th and 19th Dec, with one episode concentrating on the robbers and the other on the police investigation. It was written by Broadcurch's...

Welsh TV station, S4C recently filmed an interview with my father, the guard of the Irish Mail, robbed by the Great Train Robbery gang in Feb. 1963. The feature is now available online, here: http://194.168.30.200/clic/e_level2.shtml?programme_id=511155024 It was partly filmed at Holyhead...

Welsh TV station, S4C recently filmed an interview with my father, the guard of the Irish Mail, robbed by the Great Train Robbery gang in Feb. 1963. The feature is now available online, here: S4C catch up service It was partly filmed at Holyhead station and features the penknife he used to cut...

Welsh TV station, S4C recently filmed an interview with my father, the guard of the Irish Mail, robbed by the Great Train Robbery gang in Feb. 1963. The feature is now available online, here: It was partly filmed at Holyhead station and features the penknife my father used to cut free himself...

Here are photos of the railwaymen involved in the Irish Mail Robbery, taken from the Daily Mail, 22nd Feb., 1963. Their full story can be found here: The Forgotten Train Robbery: The Guard's Story By Arwel Owen, available from Amazon

A couple of images from the BBC's drama about the Great Train Robbery have appeared online. It's written by the guy who wrote Broadchurch, so hopes are high for a cracking drama. http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2013/06/first-image-bbc-ones-the-great-train-robbery/ http://pic.twitter.com/Nyk7SR6vIo...

If anyone's interested in reading Kindle books, but don't own a Kindle device, you can download the free Kindle Player for your PC from here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000426311 Thanks, Arwel. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- A huge thank you to...

I bought my lad a TGV set when he was around 10 and he played with it for a little while, but it was soon back in ts box. He's now 15 and whenever he goes to visit his grandad, the first thing he does is run upstairs to play with my old set that's still up in the loft. My 8 year-old daughter...

My father is a life-long railwayman, now in his late 80s, having worked from the age of 16 to 65 out of Holyhead. He was the guard on the Irish Mail on the 20th Feb. 1963, which was robbed by the Great Train Robbery gang. This little-known heist was a far more violent robbery than the August...