The Great Train Robbery was the robbery Robbery of £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963 , at Bridego Railway Bridge , Ledburn , near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire , England .

Responsibility for the operation fell Motion_directional to the members of 'D ' Company , 2nd ( Airborne ) Battalion , Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry , part of the 6th Airlanding Brigade of the 6th Airborne Division .