Electronic Railway Electronic Devices And Machinery Used On The Railways And Behind The Scenes At British Rail Footage

ELECTRONIC RAILWAY Electronic devices and machinery used on the railways and behind the scenes at British Rail.
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	Catalog #:	304102
	Clip Number:	304102-1
	Orginal Film:	CP 329
	Timecode:	01:24:58 - 01:28:26
	Location:	England
	Year Shot:	1962 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	Yes
	Headings:	COMPUTERS: Misc. LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England TRANSPORTATION/RAIL: Technology
	Description:	ELECTRONIC RAILWAY (aka RAILWAY MODERNISATION) Electronic devices and machinery used on the railways and behind the scenes at British Rail. High angle L/S of the new (nearly completed) Manchester Oxford Road railway station; M/S of the outside and inside, of a short queue at the ticket office. Commentator talks of "the new method of buying a ticket from machines which print everything on the spot" as we see a man putting a pack of tickets into a printing machine; it spits out a ticket into a small saucer. Various shots of men and women putting punched tickets into large machines; flicking switches and pressing buttons on huge computers in the accountancy department of the railways. C/U of payroll being printed. The Robotug, an electronic machine that pulls goods trolleys around depots is seen in action, following a single wire below ground. In a laboratory (on the site of the old Alexandra Palace station in North London) a man is seen analysing diesel oil with a spectrograph; C/U inside the machine of the oil being tested. Various shots of a Road Railer - a lorry that turns into a goods wagon; a mechanism in the under carriage lowers flanged wheels onto the railway as the rubber tyres lift off and the lorry cab unhooks. L/S of these silver wagons being pulled by a diesel train through the countryside. Point of view shot from the front of a train going into a modern maintenance depot for mainline diesel locos; various shots inside. M/Ss and C/Us on the Gondola Car, which travels along the track, checking the electrified overhead wires with a pantograph and other equipment for height, wear and endurance. A man in the car looks at the machinery through binoculars and speaks on a phone. M/S of a train moving along using overhead wires. L/S of a diesel train speeding through the countryside as we track with it from a moving vehicle.