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"Stop a train here today and another would ram into the back of you fairly sharpish" - I don't think that this would happen - the stopped train would be protected with track circuits. Regards
zin92 | 08.08.13 - 6:59 a.m. | #
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A good read DG, and worth the effort it must have taken to organise. I hope the pictures are added soon.
dg writes: Sorted now, thanks.
Waterhouse | 08.08.13 - 7:01 a.m. | #
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Oh, those loveable rogues... who beat the driver with a metal bar...
Chris | 08.08.13 - 8:04 a.m. | #
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"To be fair it's only a bridge, but it created wanted criminals, then jail birds, then folk heroes."
Very disappointed in you DG.
Messiah | 08.08.13 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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Growing up close by I always wanted to visit the bridge, but never got round to it. Thanks for making the trip for me.
Scottieboy (@merseytart) | Homepage | 08.08.13 - 9:09 a.m. | #
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"then folk heroes."
I know it's your blog dg, but I'd call that a lapse of judgement. I don't consider robbers who beat a train driver senseless to be folk heros.
IslandDweller | 08.08.13 - 9:21 a.m. | #
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I’ve never been able to understand how that train-robbers-as-folk-heroes thing came about, many years ago. Both drivers were severely traumatised and suffered ongoing serious health problems. Their lives were ruined.
GA Annie | 08.08.13 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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OK, pipe down you lot. DG isn't declaring these people to *be* actual heroes, he's merely reporting that this is how they've come to be portrayed in the intervening years, which is not in dispute. If you can't tell the difference then there's very little hope for you, frankly.
Steve | 08.08.13 - 10:31 a.m. | #
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@Steve: Not guilty m'lud. I did mention that the folk heroes thing came about "many years ago."
GA Annie | 08.08.13 - 11:06 a.m. | #
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What Steve said. DG is hardly endorsing the gradual lionisation of the robbers, merely reporting it. Anyone who doesn't see this is missing the point somewhat.
THC | 08.08.13 - 1:10 p.m. | #
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"Health and safety have also slapped a fluorescent yellow and black arch round the rim". Not exactly - it's set out in the Traffic Signs Regulations and Directions Order. Nothing to do with Health and Safety legislation.
xmb53 | 08.08.13 - 1:11 p.m. | #
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Why do some people feel the need to nit pick so much , great read dg.
Colininthailand | 08.08.13 - 1:16 p.m. | #
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Re. my comment earlier. Not nit-picking; I wasn't even thinking of a criticism of DG.. more the mythology which has grown up around the crime.
Chris | 08.08.13 - 1:20 p.m. | #
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But why make the pilgrimage at all? There's nothing much to see, as DG himself admits.
What next: 25 Cromwell St, Gloucester?
Tim | 08.08.13 - 2:03 p.m. | #
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Did the train robbers also steal the apostrophe from their bridge?
Blue Witch | Homepage | 08.08.13 - 5:59 p.m. | #
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The more you repeat the comment the more it becomes a self fulfilling statement.
Messiah | 08.08.13 - 11:05 p.m. | #
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Tim, if we follow your line of thinking you may as well ask why the US put a man on the moon. After all, " There's nothing much to see".
I'm sure, when DG reads your type of petty comment, he must ask himself why he bothers at all.
Keep up the good work DG. I found this blog very interesting.
Bernie | 09.08.13 - 4:19 a.m. | #
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I'm currently on holiday in London and happened to be at Highgate East Cemetery yesterday around noon. On the way to the exit I encountered a funeral party and a crowd of photographers. It became apparent it was the urn burial of Bruce Reynolds, obviously to mark this date.
Joachim | 09.08.13 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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@Joachim -- good piece about that in the Guardian this morning
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/08/bruce-reynolds-ashes-great-train-robbery
Alan Burkitt-Gray | 09.08.13 - 9:47 a.m. | #
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@Bernie
The moon missions were a huge technical achievement (unless you believe it was all done on a film set, in which case they were a simply enormous technical acheivement!). The so-called "Great" Train robbery was nothing more than a nasty piece of incompetent thuggery, and I have never understood why the perpetrators were celebrated as some kind of heroes.
tim | 09.08.13 - 9:59 a.m. | #
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I've just noticed that the British Postal Museum and Archive have an exhibition about the robbery, and the GPO Investigation Unit's role in tracking down the culprits. It's at http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/the-great-train-robbery/QQZcgLhm (and also doing a small tour round the country)
martin | 15.08.13 - 6:54 p.m. | #
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