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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: It was partly filmed at Holyhead station and features the penknife my father used to cut free himself...

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...