A TRAIN has been named after a railway worker who overturned a racist recruitment policy, to reflect his “incredible legacy,” Avanti West Coast said today.
In 1966, Asquith Xavier successfully fought against a decision not to employ him as a guard at London’s Euston station because of his ethnicity.
The unofficial policy was known as the colour bar.
Avanti West Coast has now named one of its Pendolino trains after Xavier.
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