ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br /> <br />Ronnie Biggs, the British criminal who became infamous for his role in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, died on Wednesday at the age of 84, his spokeswoman said.<br /> <br />The spokeswoman said he died in the early hours of Wednesday morning. He had been living in a care home in north London in recent years.<br /> <br />Biggs gained notoriety 50 years ago as one of a gang that stopped a Royal Mail night train and made off with 2.6 million pounds ($4.2 million), equivalent to about 40 million pounds today.<br /> <br />He became the most famous of the gang after escaping from London's Wandsworth Prison, where he was serving a 30-year prison sentence, by scaling a wall with a rope ladder.<br /> <br />He spent 36 years on the run, mostly living in Brazil.<br /> <br />Biggs finally surrendered to British police in 2001 and returned to prison but was freed in 2009 on health grounds.<br /> <br />Most of the gang were caught and given prison sentences totalling more than 300 years after
