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Feb 18, 2017 the great train robbery remains one of britains most notorious crimes 54 years later. The great train robbery is a novel, and some of the events are fictionalized, but it is based on true events. The great train robbery is a twopart british television miniseries, written by chris chibnall, that was first broadcast on bbc one on 18 and 19 december 20. It was a primitive onereeler action picture, about 10 minutes long, with 14scenes, filmed in november 1903 not in the western expanse of wyoming but on the.
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