@@resnonverba137 Yes, I take your point but I posted this nearly 6 years ago, you've left it a bit late to respond now, the world has moved on since then, plenty of other issues to deal with. Best wishes.
When you conider that Ronnie wasn’t in the inner circle of the gang, had nothing to with the planning, did not hit the driver, nor deal with the driver.. I think the public, police and government have been too harsh on him.
Ronnie Biggs was The Tea Boy who was not wanted on the Train Robbery by the other robbers, they did not trust him and had never heard of him, he knew a retire Shunter and he was in, he had nothing to be sorry about ? Mike Gray (Author) The Ronnie Biggs Quiz Book & The Great Train Robbery Quiz Book (December 2013)
One thing I would always like to know . The truth behind this retired train driver he used to know . First his full name which could be given now as he must be long dead . He did onece say it was a bloke named Peter from Red Hill . Then the actual chain of events as to what happened . Okay he might not have really known what he was doing but as for the new type of breaking system that the train was suppossed to have been fitted with is simply not true and I don't know just how that story has ever stood for all this time . It has been said that he came from what was the forma Southern Railway where they did not use vacum brakes like the trian they robbed had . It has also been said that they at first did not re-connect the pipes up correctly .
I like the fact that the piece of paper he was spelling the words out on said b*llocks at the top. I guess ITV missed that or they would have boringly apologised...or maybe that's the BBC?!
The train drivers stress and injury was greatly over exaggerated in my opinion. The guy got hit on the head once and was still healthy enough to drive the train afterwards for the robbers. And broad daylight? They robbed the train in the middle of the night.
Also not every head injury or injury to the brain are instant, they may take a day or two before the results of the injury arises. I was hit over the head (accidentally) when I was 13 and it took over 10 years before the result of that blow caused me to have problems.
He must have been there when they coshed the driver as he was the minder of the gangs driver who then couldn't drive the train so they forced their victim to do it
It wasn’t Gordon Goody, Goody was being kicked off the cab by Mills, then got coshed by the guy behind him and Biggs was nowhere near the train when it happened, then John Hussey made a death bed confession and said he did it but Mills’s family say it wasn’t Hussey because apparently Mills knew who it was and refused to say anything
Ronnie was sat in the land rover with the train driver that couldn't get the brakes off. Bruce Reynolds sent him there while Jack Mills was ordered to move the train.
