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On receiving the news, Ron almost gave himself up by walking into the British Consulate in Rio de Janiero, but changed his mind at the very last moment. In the video the train is travelling from London to Glasgow, so travelling in the opposite direction to the train involved in the train robbery, but the driver explains the scene as he covers the key parts of the track.

The story fascinates even those who were too young to remember the Great Train Robbery, much as the stories of Butch Cassidy and Robin Hood still hold their international appeal today. We get it Ronnie. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. You play guitar, paint and have a lot of famous friends.

You will notice the train passes a couple of trains coming in the other direction, those are on the track the Great Train Robbery train was using. The funeral on 10 January was a media and police circus as there was speculation that Biggs would come out of hiding to attend the funeral. But there's nothing that passes for insightful reflection.

So if you have not had the chance to see it, there may still be some time for a visit is you hurry. During the first week of January , as Charmian was driving the three boys home in Melbourne after spending the New Year holidays at Somers on West Port Bay, her car was hit side on as Charmian was crossing an intersection. So what is it that fascinates so many people about Ronald Arthur Biggs and makes him a household name in so many countries around the world?

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Want to read. A lot of big time names are talked about in this book. In September he had already taken a similar trip down to Argentina and Buenos Aires for the same reason. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! On 24 March the world discovered that Ronnie Biggs was still very much alive — even if a little unsteady on his feet — after he arrived by yacht in Barbados having disappeared from Rio de Janeiro on 16 March.

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Loved the art and pictures throughout the book. Full of rock nostalgia spanning the 70's onwards. This book is Ronnie's autobiography, and like the band it can only be talked about in superlatives: it's simply one of the biggest, most outrageous, most extraordinary and most fun rock 'n' roll memoirs ever to be published.

Texts Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Search the history of over billion web pages on the Internet. Unexpectedly, a very boring book. Much of this book's information was rather redundant as I am a voracious reader of all books pertaining to the Rolling Stones, but it was interesting to read about his time with the Small Faces and Rod Stewart I was particularly pleased to discover Ronnie portrayed Rod with the type of personality I'd always imagined he'd have.

I only read it because my brother bought it for me and loved it while in Waterstones. More info, if interested, at: www.