King’s Cross station plaque commemorates Britain’s first black train driver

A blue plaque has been unveiled at King’s Cross station in celebration of Wilston Samuel (Bill) Jackson, the UK’s first black train driver, who drove his first passenger train in 1962. Apart from being a racial trailblazer, he was also to go on to drive famous trains and locomotives such as the Flying Scotsman and The Elizabethan.Born in the Jamaican parish of Portland in 1927, Wilston moved to London in 1952, and quickly took a job as a cleaner on the railway, learning how to look a