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Fifteen Minutes. Two And A Half Million Pounds. 1963.

It takes fifteen minutes to steal two and a half million pounds from a Royal Mail train. One signal tampered with, one driver struck from behind, sixteen mailbags loaded into a waiting truck. On a bridge in Buckinghamshire, three in the morning, August 1963.

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