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

The Great Train Robbery is a one-reel film.

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.

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.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

I was anxious to hear about those dazzling days on the Great White Way.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

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

One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.

she was already considering putting in rebellious requests for duty at San Diego, Bremerton, the Great Lakes, Pensacola -- any place the Navy had a hospital -- with a threat to resign her commission if the request were not granted.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

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.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

In The Double Clue Poirot mentions that he was Chief of Police of Brussels, until " the Great War " ( WWI ) forced him to leave for England.

Tin was rare, however, being found mostly in Great Britain.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

304 – 232 BC ), commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca.

Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro.

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

Anthony the Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of Maximian, AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanctity, and his power as an exorcist.