A Train to Nowhere
IN THE TOWN OF PETERBOROUGH, THE SOLE-SURVIVING RELIC of Britain’s doomed venture into hovercraft train travel looms over the entrance to a derelict coal yard.
The RTV 31, a sleek bullet-headed train painted with a now faded Union Jack, has the charm of a sci-fi movie prop—a testament to the expanding imagination of the 1960s and a world with its eyes turned toward outer space. But
