Hi, Who exactly do you mean by "signalman" ?

Hi the signalman in signal box. he got hit over the head?
cheers martin

Hi Martin,

The only guy who got hit was the engine driver, Jack Mills and he wasn't hit that hard.

The police made a huge deal of his injury to turn the public against the robbers as they were fast becoming public heroes.

Cheers for that. do you know the name of rhe signalbox man was. why so interested is according to family history he was signalman, and was followed by police for 3 months as they thought he was in on it. cheers martin

Hi Martin,

The only signalman who made a statement to the police was a
Thomas William Wyn-de-bank.

If you are interested I have quite a bit of GTR stuff on one of my websites; www.crimecollection.com

You can email me from there if you want and I will send you a copy of his statement

All the best

David

Hi david
one part of story right that is my uncle
thanks very much
cheers martin

Hi there,did you find out the name you were looking for.caz

Hi David,
my name is caroline.I believe my uncle David,second man, went to signal box,and phone lines were down.He then went back to train and robbers threw him down embankment.
Rumours also sugest David was hit,can you help with true
facts please.Any documents on David Whitby would be fantantastic.
Who is Thomas William Wyn-de-bank?

Thanks Caroline Green.

Hi Caroline,

Your uncle, David Whitby was indeed the second man. He left the engine to use the tarackside phone to ring and find out why the signal was red. The phone did not work and whilst returning to the engine he saw two people doing something to the second carriage coupling. He assumed they were railway personnel and approached them. He was grabbed and kept prisoner during the robbery. He didn't claim he was hit and I am sure the Police would have loved him to say he was so he probably wasn't!

I have a copy of his signed statement if you are interested.

One of my websites ; crimecollection.com has a lot of Robbery stuff on it. From there you can email me and I will send you a copy of David's statement,

all the best

David

Hi Caroline,

I hope you’re well. I have just found via this website that you are the niece of David Whitby the Secondman who was on board the train in the 1963 Great Train Robbery. I am currently working on a forthcoming project regarding the robbery and would like to discuss this project with you as well as answering any questions or concerns you may have. Please let me know how best to contact you directly and I look forward in hearing from you. Alternatively, if you would prefer not to be involved I would quite understand and respect your wishes.

Kind regards,
Lydia