Bit of a strange one. Was reading up on the great train robbery and watching a film or two. Realised that section of track must be in game on WCML. Has anyone found the correct bridge? How is is represented in game and the surrounding area? Any Easter eggs? Any help finding the correct spot would be appreciated.
The bridge is known as Bridgeo Bridge, WCML number 127. It's around two miles south of Leighton Buzzard, so if you want to visit it in game then I'd suggest loading in there and taking a free roam train south. From Leighton you go around a curve to the left which leads to a long straight. At the start of the straight you'll see a bridge going over you carrying the A4146. Immediately after this the railway is the one on top of a bridge as it passes over Aylesbury Rd. Somewhere around half to three quarters of a mile south of here, there is another bridge going over the railway which carries a farm track. Bridge 127 is then the next bridge south of this, past a service area on the left and close to a pair of switching tracks between the lines. It is around as far south of the farm track bridge as Aylesbury Rd is north of it. As for what's there, it's not very impressive. The bridge is far too big and the road makes a swerve to the right in order to go under it which is completely inaccurate. The reason for this is that they put a generic bridge asset here rather than a custom built one for the location, so the road had to be readjusted so that it didn't just break in the middle.
It’s also a fairly taboo topic bearing in mind the driver subsequently died as a result of head injuries sustained when one of the culprits coshed him.
That’s not true. He died a few years later from leukaemia (although the whole thing had a serious impact on him understandably).
I thought they could have put an Easter egg or something at the spot ,it's an iconic or some could say a little controversial subject seen as it's crime related an all, However I do still think it's worth a mention or inclusion in the game as it's like it or not now a part of this railway lines history
I’d imagine it very much is! Coincidentally I thought about the Great Train Robbery last week and hunted for the location. I was also a little non plussed to find nothing out of the ordinary there. Although I do see the need not to glamourise or celebrate crime, it is indeed written into British folklore. The fact the crime was successfully investigated by the police and the all of the criminals (eventually) brought to justice means it needn’t be forgotten, in my opinion.
I wondered if someone would catch that Yep, the train during the robbery was a Class 40 albeit before the TOPS classification, with 12 post office carriages. MK1 parcel BGs was the best I could do.
D326/40 126 was the loco, it was said to be jinxed as it was involved in some incidents and was withdrawn and scrapped immediately in 1983 so no chance of preservation
Oh I didn’t realise that. Assaulting the driver of the train lost the gang a lot of public sympathy I think.
