Bruce Reynolds, Great Train Robber - a life in pictures
Bruce Reynolds, mastermind of the Great Train Robbery in 1963, has died
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Bruce Reynolds, mastermind of the Great Train Robbery, has died aged 81
Photograph: Rex Features
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The Great Train Robbery was a £2.6m heist committed on 8 August 1963 in Buckinghamshire, England. The train was stopped on a bridge so it could be unloaded
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The interior of the mail van after the robbery
Photograph: Associated Newspapers/Rex Features
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A photo of Reynolds issued by Scotland Yard after the robbery
Photograph: Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images
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The Guardian's front page coverage of the Great Train Robbery in 1963
Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian
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Two sacks of banknotes which were found in a telephone box in Southwark. £2.6m was stolen, the bulk of which was not recovered
Photograph: Associated Newspapers / Rex Fea/Rex Features
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Reynolds, leader of the gang, outside Linslade court, Buckinghamshire, in November 1968. Since the robbery, Reynolds had been on the run abroad, before returning to Britain, where he was tried and sentenced to 25 years in jail
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Left to right: Roger Cordrey; Buster Edwards and Bruce Reynolds, three of the Great Train Robbers outside Waterloo station on a publicity tour for their book in 1979
Photograph: PA
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Reynolds was released in 1979 and went on to write the book The Autobiography of a Thief (1995)
Photograph: Penny Tweedie/Corbis
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Retired Chief Inspector John Wolley who discovered the Leatherslade Farm hideout, meeting up with Bruce Reynolds on the 40th anniversary of the Great Train Robbery, in August 2003
Photograph: Justin McManus/Rex Features
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Reynolds with his son Nick at the launch of 'Cons To Icons' an exhibition of artworks of famous criminals
Photograph: Alex Woods/Pns
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Former gangster Dave Courtney with Reynolds at a screening of the film Bronson in 2009
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