End of the line for train robber Biggs

Ronnie Biggs was a petty criminal who set out to transform his life with the daring heist of a mail train packed with money.

The plan worked in ways he could never have imagined.

He was part of a gang of at least 12 men that robbed a Glasgow-to-London Royal Mail train in the early hours of August 8, 1963, switching its signals and tricking the driver into stopping in the darkness. The robbery netted 125 sacks of banknotes worth £2.6 million — €3m at the time, or more than €36m today — and became known as “the heist of the century”.