# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BmO7jBnjCzC
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16449105-gettyimages-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/c1eaa50d6a.jpg
- **Posted:** 2018-08-08T21:38:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 has been called "the heist of the century.” In the early morning hours of August 8, 1963, a gang of 15 masked men robbed a Royal Mail train on its route from Glasgow to London. The #bandits made off with £2.6 million — today's equivalent of $53.3 million. Pictured here, three handcuffed men arrested in connection with the #robbery.
Visit the link in our bio to look back at one of #Britain’s most infamous crimes.
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📷: Dennis Oulds/Central Press/Getty Images | Gettyarchive | #TrueCrime #History #OTD #1963 #Crime #Archive

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otd, history, bandits, 1963, robbery, archive, truecrime, crime, britain

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