The Great Train Robbery: The Man History Forgot to Feel Sorry For

Bruce Reynolds called it his Sistine Chapel. Ronnie Biggs got a folk hero's send off. Buster Edwards got a film named after him and a flower stall by Waterloo station. Sixty years on, the Great Train Robbery still gets talked about like a caper, a bit of cheeky British villainy pulled off by a gang of lovable rogues who outsmarted the establishment. There's just one problem with that story. It leaves out the man they nearly killed. A very ordinary night shift On the night of 7 to 8 August...