British Rail and its attempt to sell Vancouver on a Railbus

Promotional image showing a Class 142 railbus somewhere in the Fraser Valley (British Rail) The theme of Expo 86 was transportation and many, many countries took advantage of the show to demonstrate their developments in this field. Of course, the star of the show was Canada’s SkyTrain, but Japan showed its maglev train, America its cars, and the United Kingdom showed its conventional rail. Said…