Britain's first black train driver has been honoured with a blue plaque, 60 years after white colleagues tried to stop his appointment. Jamaican-born Wilston Samuel Jackson, who arrived in the UK as a member of the Windrush generation in 1952, worked in maintenance jobs before becoming a train driver in 1962, despite the widespread vetoing of black applicants for driver roles. His appointment sparked anger among some white colleagues, who urged others not to work with him – but he went on to enj
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2021-10-26 00:00:00.0