Editing Great Train Robbery (1963) (section)

==In popular culture==
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===Films===
* In the 1965 film ''[[Help! (film)|Help!]]'', [[John Lennon]] makes a snide reference to the robbery in [[Scotland Yard]]. "Great Train Robbery, how's that going?"
* In the 1965 [[James Bond]] film ''[[Thunderball (film)|Thunderball]]'', a [[SPECTRE]] officer states that the criminal organisation received £250,000 of the stolen loot as a consultation fee for the robbery.
* A comedy version was staged in the 1966 film ''[[The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery]]''.
* ''{{Interlanguage link|Die Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse|de}}'' (''The Gentlemen Request Payment'', also known as ''Great British Train Robbery'') aired in Germany as a three-part mini-series in 1966 and featured [[Horst Tappert]] as Reynolds.
* In ''[[Robbery (1967 film)|Robbery]]'' (1967), [[Stanley Baker]] plays a character based upon Reynolds.
* The 1968 film ''[[Inspector Clouseau (film)|Inspector Clouseau]]'' sent the incompetent French policeman in pursuit of Rainbow, a fictional character based on Reynolds, who appears in Gosling and Craig's 1965 book about the robbery and in McDaniel's 1967 book.
* In the 1969 French comedy film ''[[The Brain (1969 film)|The Brain]]'', the Great Train Robbery was committed by a criminal mastermind nicknamed 'The Brain' ([[David Niven]]), who tries some years after to repeat the same plan to steal [[NATO]]'s millions in cash transiting from [[Paris]] to [[Brussels]]. He does not know that two French petty crooks planned to rob the wagon using the same methods of the Great Train Robbery.
* The 1988 film ''[[Buster (film)|Buster]]'' fictionalizes the entire escapade, focusing on one of the robbers, Buster, played by Phil Collins.
* In TV series Widows-3 (She's Out! (1995)) Dolly Rawlins teams up with several other parolees and make plans to stage a train robbery on horseback.

===Games===
* In the online multiplayer game ''[[RuneScape]]'', there is a quest called "The Great Brain Robbery", with similar plot elements.
* In the computer video game ''[[Starcraft 2]]'', there is a mission titled "The Great Train Robbery".
* In the video game ''[[Borderlands 2]]'', there is a mission called "The Pretty Good Train Robbery".
* In the 2010 [[Rockstar Games|Rockstar]] video game [[Red Dead Redemption]], the player must take supplies from a train in a fashion similar to this in the mission "The Great Mexican Train Robbery".
* The board game [[The Great Train Robbery (board game)|"The Great Train Robbery"]] by [[Bruce Barrymore Halpenny]] in the 1970s.

===Literature===
* John Gosling and Dennis Craig's book on the robbery ''The Great Train Robbery – the Incredible Story of a Masterpiece of Modern Crime'' (1965), theorised that the theft was masterminded by a cashiered British army officer, Johnnie Rainbow.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Great Train Robbery – the Incredible Story of a Masterpiece of Modern Crime|publisher=Bobbs Merrill|year=1965|asin= B000H58S6Q|first1=John|last1=Gosling|first2=Dennis|last2=Craig}}</ref>
* The character of Rainbow featured in ''The Rainbow Affair'' (1967), a novel by [[David McDaniel]] based on the television series ''[[The Man from UNCLE]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Rainbow Affair (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. No. 13) |publisher=Ace Books, No. G-670|first=David|last=McDaniel|year=1967|edition= 1st |asin= B000KKAURS }}</ref>
* [[Agatha Christie]]'s [[Miss Marple]] [[detective novel]] ''[[At Bertram's Hotel]]'' (1965) contains elements of the robbery.
* ''The Men Who Robbed The Great Train Robbers'' (2013), a novel by Mick Lee, re-telling the robbery and filling in narrative gaps from first hand accounts, demonstrating who was probably behind the crime.
* ''Signal Red: A Novel Based on the Great Train Robbery'' (2010), a novel by Robert Ryan.<ref name="Robert Ryan"/>
* LIFE magazine, in its 23 August 1963 issue, featured an 8-page article title 'STOP! For The Greatest Train Robbery" and 'Big Tickle Puts The Scream Too High'
* ''Keep on Running - A Story from the Great Train Robbery'' (1995/2014) by Ronnie Biggs and Christopher Pickard, published by Mpress ({{ISBN|9780992606275}}). A novel by Ronnie Biggs based on the three robbers that got away.
* Novelisation of ''[[Buster (film)|Buster]]'' by [[Colin Shindler]] ({{ISBN|9780747403760}}).

===Music===
* The American rock band [[Mountain (band)|Mountain]] included the song "The Great Train Robbery" on their 1971 album ''[[Nantucket Sleighride (album)|Nantucket Sleighride]]''. The song's lyrics refer to Wilson and Rainbow by name.
* Ronald Biggs recorded vocals on two songs for ''[[The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle]]'', [[Julien Temple]]'s 1980 mockumentary film about the [[Sex Pistols]]. The basic tracks for "[[No One Is Innocent (song)|No One is Innocent]]" (aka "The Biggest Blow (A Punk Prayer)") and "[[Belsen Was a Gas]]" were recorded with guitarist [[Steve Jones (musician)|Steve Jones]] and drummer [[Paul Cook]] at a studio in Brazil shortly after the Sex Pistols' final performance, with [[overdub]]s being added in an English studio at a later date. "No One Is Innocent" was released as a single in the UK and reached No. 6 on the British singles charts, with the sleeve showing [[Martin Bormann]] playing bass with the group (in actuality this was American actor [[James Jeter]]).
* [[Paul Hardcastle]] released a song in 1985 titled "Just For Money", about the robbery.
* In 1991, Ronald Biggs sang vocals for the song "Carnival in Rio (Punk Was)" by German punk band [[Die Toten Hosen]].
* Following the extradition attempt, Biggs collaborated with Bruce Henry (an American double-bass player), Jaime Shields, and Aureo de Souza to record ''Mailbag Blues'', a musical narrative of his life that he intended to use a movie soundtrack. This album was re-released in 2004 by whatmusic.com.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.whatmusic.com |title=rare brazilian euro jazz bossa breaks on LP & CD |publisher=Whatmusic.com |access-date=6 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301233815/http://www.whatmusic.com/ |archive-date=1 March 2010 |url-status=usurped }}</ref>
* British group, [[Alabama 3]], recorded a tribute to Bruce Reynolds about the robbery, "Have You Seen Bruce Richard Reynolds" (originally recorded by The Fylde Folk) on which he appears, on their 2005 album, ''[[Outlaw (Alabama 3 album)|Outlaw]]''. Alabama 3 harmonica player, Nick Reynolds, is the son of Bruce Reynolds.<ref name="Adam Bernstin, The Washington Post A26"/>)
* British group [[The Crocketts]] called their second album ''The Great Brain Robbery'', which was released in 2000.

===Radio===
* In several 1963 episodes of ''[[The Navy Lark]]'', the robbery was referred to via expressions of surprise – by various characters – of seeing Chief Petty Officer Pertwee free, and not in police custody for committing the robbery.

===Television===
* In February 2006, [[Channel 4]] aired a documentary about the 1981 plot to kidnap Biggs and take him to [[Barbados]]. The programme featured a dramatisation of the attempt and an interview with ex-soldier John Miller, one of the men responsible. In the programme, security consultant Patrick King, who led the team, claimed that the kidnapping may have in fact been a [[deniability|deniable operation]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.channel4.com/more4/documentaries/doc-feature.jsp?id=3|title=Kidnap Ronnie Biggs- Documentary|date=9 February 2006|work=[[Channel 4]]|access-date=21 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080204215646/http://www.channel4.com/more4/documentaries/doc-feature.jsp?id=3|archive-date=4 February 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>
* In 2012, [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] aired a documentary about the robbery based on a new book, ''The Great Train Robbery: The definitive account''. The documentary was co-produced for [[ITV Studios]] by [[Stewart Richards]], the 1980s [[Art film|arthouse film]] producer, who also co-wrote the book.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ITV boards Great Train Robbery documentary |url=https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/itv-boards-great-train-robbery-documentary/5045996.article |access-date=2 January 2024 |website=Broadcast |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Richards |first=Stewart |title=The Great Train Robbery: Crime of the century: The definitive account |publisher=[[Orion Publishing Group|Orion]] |year=2013 |isbn=9780297864400 |location=London}}</ref>
* On 18 December 2013, the day Ronnie Biggs died, [[BBC One]] aired the first of a two-part dramatisation ''[[The Great Train Robbery (2013 TV series)|The Great Train Robbery]]''. Episode one, ''A Robber's Tale'' details the organisation of and successful completion of the robbery. Episode two, ''A Copper's Tale'' follows the police investigation into the crime and subsequent arrest of many of the perpetrators.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/51/the-great-train-robbery-a-robbers-tale.html|title=The Great Train Robbery – A Robber's Tale|date=18 December 2013|work=[[BBC]]|access-date=20 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915043644/https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/51/the-great-train-robbery-a-robbers-tale.html|archive-date=15 September 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
* In 2019 in episode 6 of part 1 of the Spanish TV programme ''The Money Heist'', there is mention of "the Glasgow train robbery".

===Theatre===
* A popular skit from the comedy revue ''[[Beyond the Fringe]]'', starring [[Peter Cook]] and [[Alan Bennett]], deals with the efforts to catch the criminals behind the robbery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUrhdIxTJSA|title=BTF - Great Train Robbery|date=27 February 2007 |via=www.youtube.com|access-date=27 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527200707/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUrhdIxTJSA|archive-date=27 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
* In [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s musical ''[[Starlight Express]]'', the main villain, a [[brake van]] and apparent serial criminal, claims to have been involved in the robbery, along with several other historical train crimes.

===Model railway===
* On 10 September 2011 two 5-inch-gauge ({{convert|5|in|mm|disp=out|sigfig=3}}) battery-powered scale models of class 40 locomotives on the half-mile-plus ({{convert|0.5|mi|m|disp=out}}) circuit of The Strawberry Line Miniature Railway in the Avon Valley Country Park at [[Keynsham]] near [[Bristol]] were named in honour of driver Jack Mills and secondman David Whitby.
* Additionally, the Luton Model Railway Club has created a [[diorama]] portraying the scene of the robbery which is currently situated at Ferry Meadows station on the [[Nene Valley Railway]], as part of the Night Mail museum.