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Female train driver completes training (1983)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified female speaker on the effort involved in becoming a train driver, following the completion of her training. Female interviewer not identified.

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Orient Express: description of journey from London to Venice in 1983 - nd [1983]

ORIENT EXPRESS [Series RADIO VICTORY ARCHIVE] Radio Victory tranmission giving description of journey on the Orient Express from London to Venice in 1983. TRACK 1- In - Music - On October 4th 1883 ......

ILR South Radio Online Audio

They stole a train (1988)

On 8th August 1963, fifteen men robbed the night mail train from Glasgow to London. They stole two and a half million pounds. The crime was dubbed the ‘Great Train Robbery’. This documentary traces the...

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Train robbery at O’Rourkes Bridge, Northern Ireland (1984)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male speaker on a train robbery in Northern Ireland, on the Belfast-to-Dublin train. The train was stopped at O’Rourkes Bridge, then taken one-and-a-half miles to Mount Pleasant, south of the...

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Ronnie Biggs on Great Train Robbery (1988)

Genre

Interview

Interview with criminal Ronnie Biggs, in Brazil. He talks about the Great Train Robbery in 1963 and the assault on train driver Jack Mills. He also comments on his children and says they should keep away...

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Train driver dies in night sleeper crash (1982)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the death of train driver William Plummer in an accident on the London Euston-to-Glasgow express service (09/12/82). Speakers include: British Rail spokesman Dick Saunderson(?); train driver Melvyn...

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Attempted mail train raid (1985)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on an attempted Great Train Robbery copycat raid on a London to Liverpool overnight train, in which the raiders obtained a duplicate key to the mail carriage and sprayed a guard in the face with...

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Glorification of Great Train Robbery (1988)

Genre

Interview

Chris Moncrieff, one of the detectives involved in the case, on the glorification of the Great Train Robbery 25 years ago today. He says the films, books and musical about it should be boycotted. For AM...

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InterCity 225 train (1990)

Genre

News report; Speech

Louise Randall reports on the launch of the the new InterCity 225 train in Edinburgh, and the embarrassment caused to British Rail by its having to be pulled by a diesel engine. BR Chief Executive John...

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Launch of APT high-speed train (1981)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the prototype high-speed APT train which has launched seven years late. Includes interviews on the London to Glasgow service with teenage train enthusiast Stuart Hogg; stewardess Marie Docherty;...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio