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Great Train Robber : dead at 84 - ketchim - 12-18-2013 Ronnie Biggs said his share of the haul had been £147,000                                           Re: Great Train Robber : dead at 84 - ketchim - 12-18-2013 British criminal Ronnie Biggs, who took part in the 1963 Great Train Robbery, has died aged 84 Biggs was part of the gang which escaped with £2.6m from the Glasgow to London mail train on 8 August 1963. He was given a 30-year sentence but escaped from Wandsworth prison in 1965.