The movie was The Great Train Robbery and its effects on the young industry and art were all but incalculable.

The `` chase '' as a standard film device probably dates from The Great Train Robbery, and there is a reason for the continued popularity of the device.

* 1963 – Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £ 2. 6 million in bank notes.

* 1929 – Ronnie Biggs, English criminal, part of the Great Train Robbery of 1963

* 1964 – Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.

The The Great Train Robbery was ground-breaking and is still shown in film schools today as an example of early editing form.

That is, The Great Train Robbery contains scenes shot on sets of a telegraph station, a railroad car interior, and a dance hall, with outdoor scenes at a railroad water tower, on the train itself, at a point along the track, and in the woods.

All of these films, and indeed others of like nature were shown in the United States, and some them were certainly seen by Edwin Porter, before he made The Great Train Robbery towards the end of the year.

The time continuity in The Great Train Robbery is actually more confusing than that in the films it was modeled on, but nevertheless it was a greater success than them worldwide, because of its Wild West violence.

* 1918 – Great Train Wreck of 1918: in Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.

* 1856 – The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, kills over 60 people.

National Rail is used by the Association of Train Operating Companies ( ATOC ) as a generic term to define the passenger rail services operated in Great Britain-before the adoption of National Rail, " Great Britain Passenger Railway " was used.

ATOC is an unincorporated association whose membership consists of the passenger Train Operating Companies ( TOCs ) of Great Britain that run the passenger services previously provided by the British Railways Board, from 1965 using the brand name British Rail ).

About 20 privately-owned Train Operating Companies, each franchised for a defined term by government, operate passenger trains on the main rail network in Great Britain.

** Sentences totalling 307 years are passed on 12 men who stole £ 2. 6m in used bank notes, after holding up the night mail train travelling from Glasgow to London in August 1963 – a heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery.

* August 8 – The Great Train Robbery of 1963 takes place in Buckinghamshire, England.

** Scotland Yard arrests Buster Edwards, suspected of involvement in the Great Train Robbery.

* July 17 – The Great Train Wreck ( the worst railroad calamity in the world to date ) occurs near Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Amongst the entirely new material, the stand-outs were " The End of the World ," " TVPM ," and " The Great Train Robbery.

In what was dubbed " The Great Migration of 1843 " or the " Wagon Train of 1843 ", an estimated 700 to 1000 emigrants left for Oregon.

The Great Train Story, a model railroad, recounts the story of transportation from Chicago to Seattle.

Justus D. Barnes, from The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 film ) | The Great Train Robbery

* 1950 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $ 2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.

* April 21 – The Great Bookie Robbery in Melbourne: Bandits steal A $ 1. 4 million in bookmakers ' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.

** The Great Gold Robbery of 1855 occurs in England.

Courten would later lose this title to James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle in what was called the " Great Barbados Robbery.

The first Western film was the 1903 film The Great Train Robbery, a silent film directed by Edwin S. Porter and starring Broncho Billy Anderson.

* The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery ( 1966 )

** Michael Crichton's novel The Great Train Robbery

The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 Western film written, produced, and directed by Edwin S. Porter.

Great stress is placed on the role that the monitoring of information sending plays in maintaining the effectiveness of the network.

He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.

Here is truly a `` Great Recording of the Century '', and its greatness is by no means diminished by the fact that it is not quite perfect.

The Great Smoky Mountains is another area of the South well worth a visit.

So it is with Great Expectations, whether the hands be Orlick's as he strikes down Mrs. Gargery or Pip's as he steals a pie from her pantry.

Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.

But only in one of its aspects is Great Expectations a tale of violence, revenge, and retribution.

I am selling the stuff of which is made one of the Great American Dreams -- wall-to-wall carpeting.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

Aquarius is identified as " The Great One " in the Babylonian star catalogues and represents the god Ea himself, who is commonly depicted holding an overflowing vase.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.