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Swirling psychedelic symbols, playful motifs and abstract icons – these are the best logos of the 1960s, as picked by designers and industry experts.
Volunteers are working to bring a 1960s push-pull diesel train back to a branch line after an absence of more than half a century. The trains, once a common sight, have not run on the Corfe Castle ...
Pik-sen Lim, the Malaysian-born actress, who has died aged 81, found fame in the 1960s playing the first Chinese character to ...
Bearing the traditional green livery of early 1960s British Rail, the train left King's Cross as scheduled at 7.40am, but was briefly held up by people standing on the track to take photos near St ...
TOPS was developed by Southern Pacific Railroad (with IBM and Stanford U.) in the USA during the 1960s, later also installed in Canada and British Rail in the UK during the 1970s.
Christine Keeler, key figure in 1960s British sex-and-spy scandal, ... and she grew up with her mother and stepfather in an abandoned railroad car in rural Berkshire, England.
DEDICATED volunteers have launched an appeal to raise £20,000. This is to complete the restoration of a historic TC carriage which will enable a 1960s British Rail ‘push-pull’ diesel train to ...
Rail travel could be a feminist issue too. Similarly, messaging for business travellers tightened. Before the 1960s, business travel was about luxury.
The chronic shortage of rolling stock on the UK rail network has pushed one operator to bring back British Rail diesel locomotives that are more than 50 years old, hauling “slam-door ...
The Beatles first recorded “One After 909” in 1963 on the same day as “From Me to You.” However, The Beatles did perform it live earlier as The Quarrymen in 1960 and at the Cavern Club in ...
This is to complete the restoration of a historic TC carriage which will enable a 1960s British Rail ‘push-pull’ diesel train to run from Swanage to Corfe Castle for the first time since 1971.