Nevada Appeal at 150: Aug. 8, 1963: Bandits pull off greatest train robbery

A band of 20 to 30 masked bandits decoyed the Glasgow-London mail train to a halt with a false signal today, blackjacked the engineer and escaped with loot the post office said may exceed a million pounds, or $2.8 million. Executed in 15 minutes, officials are calling the incident history’s greatest train robbery. Of comparable robberies in the United States, the biggest cash haul was $1,551,277 taken last Aug. 14 from a mail truck outside Plymouth, Mass. “This is the first attack o