The real-life Ronald "Buster" Edwards committed suicide in 1994, at the age of 62. The train used in the film in the robbery sequences is not the Number 37 like that in the real Great Train Robbery, it is a (reconstructed) Number 40 train. Despite this movie taking place in England during the early to mid 1960s, the film features absolutely no music by the Beatles. This was not through lack of trying. Phil Collins reported in an interview in 1988 the filmmakers received permission ...[Read Story ]