''The next saucer to Shoeburyness leaves from platform 5 ...''
Alok Jha
Monday March 13, 2006
The Guardian.
"We're getting there." That was the motto of British Rail in its 1980s heyday. But how they thought they might get
there will come as a surprise to even diehard trainspotters: a decade earlier engineers had patented plans to
transport passengers by nuclear-powered flying saucer, writes Alok Jha.
The plans for the space vehicle were discovered on the website of the European Patent Office by a student.
"I thought it must be a joke at first," he said, electing to stay anonymous. "It's the sort of thing you only
read about in science fiction books."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/st...729592,00.html