SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: How The Great Train Robbery Worked

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In 1963, 15 men got together in England to pull off one of the most daring heists in history. The Great Train Robbery was the crime of the century, capturing the public's attention and leaving them torn on who to root for - the cops or the robbers. Learn all about England's greatest heist in today's episode.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.0	Thanks for making it through our true crime playlist.
0:08.0	We're rounding this one out with a good old-fashioned train robbery,
0:12.0	for which we head across the pond to visit our friends in the UK.
0:16.0	Back in 1963, one of the all-time great hold-ups was carried out by a huge gang of men who relieved
0:22.1	a British mail train of a massive amount of money, and they did it without guns. Most of the robbers
0:27.9	were eventually caught, but most of the money has never been found. All aboard for the last
0:33.1	episode in our playlist on the Great Train Robbery.
0:38.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from How StuffWorks.com.
0:49.3	Chew-choo and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
0:55.0	There's Jerry.
0:56.8	And you put all of us together with a couple of microphones, a crummy IKEA lamp.
1:02.7	And a head full of nose juice.
1:06.2	You get stuff you should know.
1:07.8	That's right.
1:08.8	Stuff you should nose juice.
1:10.6	Oh, great. How's it going, buddy? Besides the obvious under the weatherness of you. I predict this is the last one. Great. I'm going to be back to good as new by the next time we record. Yeah, we're going to Vancouver and you'll get some of that good Canadian air. Air.
1:28.4	Pine air.
1:29.1	It's healing properties.
1:30.9	I'll get pine and flannel and ocean like in my face.
1:36.2	And moose.
1:37.1	Yeah.
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