[1] Although based on the Great Train Robbery, the board game has been adapted on a few small points, one being the extra farm house that was added for playing purposes.

[2] The famous train artist David Weston was commissioned by Bruce Halpenny to paint the box.

[2] The game, as well as having a good response in Britain in a year when the indoor games market had taken a knock,[2] was equally popular in West Germany, where a television series called Die Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse [de], based on the 1963 robbery, had been a tremendous success.

In an interview, Bruce Halpenny said, “With crime you deal with every basic human emotion and also have enough elements to combine action with melodrama.

Because of the gamble they take in the early stage of the game there is a build up of tension, which is immediately released once the train is robbed.