It’s strange that these coves pitched up for the funeral of a small time crook who was not particularly admired, even by his peers.
Biggs was only recruited to “The Big Job” because he told Bruce Reynolds that he could secure the services of a retired train driver. (The gang needed a driver to move the train). Biggs managed to make a cods up of even this small role as the old boy he brought in was not able to drive the loco. This led the gang to have to get the badly injured driver Mills to move the train and had he been unable to do so because of his injuries the entire job would have been a failure.
“Moths to a flame” is about the only way to describe why these fine, upstanding members of society should choose to grace such an inauspicious occasion, and why others unable to attend for various reasons felt the need to send their respects.