THE LAST TURKEY

Not content with merely ruining our daily commute between rural and urban areas throughout the UK, once upon a time British Rail wanted to cause us misery on an intergalactic scale...

The British Rail flying saucer, officially known simply as space vehicle, was a proposed spacecraft designed by Charles Osmond Frederick. A patent application was filed by Jensen and Son on behalf of British Rail on 11 December 1970 and granted on 21 March 1973. The flying saucer originally started as a proposal for a raiseable platform. However, the project was revised and edited, and by the time the patent was filed had become a large passenger craft for interplanetary travel.