Jimmy White

Professional robber and member of the 1963 Great Train Robbery gang who remained at large after the initial arrests before later capture and conviction.

Editorial standard

Convictions, acquittals, allegations, police assessments, memoir claims and media descriptions are kept separate. Cross-links identify documented relationships or clearly marked context.

Professional robbery network

White belonged to the experienced robbery network around Bruce Reynolds rather than being a one-off recruit.

Great Train Robbery

He took part in the 1963 mail-train robbery and was one of the men pursued after the gang’s hideout was discovered.

Fugitive period

White remained on the run after many other members had been arrested, extending the police hunt beyond the initial prosecutions.

Conviction

He was eventually captured and convicted for his role in the robbery.

Graph role

White adds another direct participant to the Great Train Robbery event and connects to Reynolds, Goody, Wilson, Edwards and the Leatherslade Farm evidence chain.

Death

– Date: unknown – Place: unknown – Cause / finding: unknown

Network links

– Great Train Robbery — participant; convicted – South West Gang / associated robbery network — associated professional robber – Leatherslade Farm — gang hideout / evidence context

Direct people links

– Bruce Reynolds — fellow robber – Gordon Goody — fellow robber – Charlie Wilson — fellow robber – Buster Edwards — fellow robber

Sources

– The Guardian. Great Train Robbery at 50 (2013-08-08). https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/08/great-train-robbery-50-years

Why this profile matters

White belongs to the wider Great Train Robbery network but is useful precisely because the archive can place him among the less mythologized participants rather than focusing only on the most famous names. His page contributes to the collective structure of the robbery: planning, participation, escape, prosecution and the later lives of the gang members.

Connections across the archive

Documented network

Great Train Robbery gang (organization): Jimmy White is documented in sources as associated with Great Train Robbery gang.

Great Train Robbery (1963) (event): Linked to the related canonical historical event.

Leatherslade Farm (location): gang hideout / evidence context

Timeline and case connections

The Master record keeps events separate from general biography so arrests, convictions, organizational changes, killings and other milestones can be updated without rewriting unrelated parts of the page.

Date not specified in current profile sources — Great Train Robbery (1963). Linked to the related canonical historical event.

Date not specified in current profile sources — Great Train Robbery. participant; convicted

before 2000 — Death of Jimmy White. unknown

Status and record

The structured record lists the birth information as unknown. The death record lists before 2000 in unknown. Cause: unknown.

Evidence and editorial boundaries

The profile is designed as a historical research node rather than a collection of unsourced anecdotes. Where evidence is strongest on an organization, prosecution or event rather than private biographical details, the page stays focused on that documented record.

Source record

The current Master package attaches the following sources to this profile: – The Great Train Robbery — British Transport Police, Tier 1. – 50 years on: What happened to the Great Train Robbers? — ITV News, Tier 2. – Great Train Robbery at 50 — The Guardian, Tier 2.

Source entries establish the claims for which they are cited; their presence does not mean every source supports every sentence. Structured references are retained so later audits can trace claims back to evidence.