The Flying Scot (film)

Gang members Ronnie, Jackie and Phil, aboard a train, break through from a cabin into the parcel compartment where bags of money are being carried. They work in silence to remove the back of a seat and enter the compartment and remove the bags. They then throw the bags from the train to their accomplice Gibbs who takes the money away in his van.

The gang then flies to a tropical location to celebrate their audacious crime. So far no words have been spoken as what has seemingly occurred is the gang's idea of the perfect robbery. The film then moves on to the reality of the planned crime with the gang talking about their six previous heists and their actual plan to rob the Flying Scot train of half a million pounds cash destined for destruction in London. The robberies are planned meticulously.

Ronnie and Jackie pose as newlyweds and board the overnight Flying Scot. Other gang member Phil also boards the train but Phil is ill, clutching his right rib area. He appears to have an ulcer.

Ronnie tries to break through from their cabin into the parcel compartment but finds this carriage is different to the last one, with rivets instead of screws, and more solid. Phil comes to help but he is followed by Charlie, a little boy. The train guard brings a bottle of champagne as it is his wedding anniversary today, but does not see Phil in the cabin.

Meanwhile there is a drunk on the train who is trying to recover. He previously broke into Ronnie and Jackie's cabin.

Phil goes back to Ronnie's cabin and starts to break into the parcel compartment. He is now much sicker. He starts drilling holes in the wall to enable a hole to be made. Ronnie is revealed to have a pistol under his jacket. Ronnie has to finish the drilling.

They break through and Jackie squeezes into the parcel compartment through the hole. The drunk comes to the cabin again and Ronnie gives him the champagne. Charlie sees this and knocks asking for "lemonade" like the man was given.

Charlie runs back to his cabin and says he saw something. His parents don't believe him as he is known to tell tales. Charlie tells the guard there are robbers in the cabin.

The gang is too slow to get the money so cannot throw it out of the window at the prearranged location. The guard comes to check the cabin and sees part of one of the stolen bags but they do not let him in. Aware of the attempted heist, the guard puts a message on a device and drops it at a station as the train powers on. When the train arrives in London the police are on hand to arrest the gang.

• Lee Patterson as Ronnie
• Kay Callard as Jackie
• Alan Gifford as Phil
• Margaret Withers as middle-aged lady
• Mark Baker as Gibbs
• Jeremy Bodkin as Charlie, the boy
• Gerald Case as Guard
• Margaret Gordon as drunk's wife
• John Lee as young man
• Kerry Jordan as drunk
• John Dearth as father