The Railway Today (1960)

C/U of a railway pole being raised to an electrified wire; M/S of an electric train travelling along; interesting M/S from inside the drivers cabin looking out as we run along the tracks. M/S from the side of the driver in the cabin as he works the controls. M/Ss from the moving train looking at the electric wires as we speed along; M/Ss of the passengers inside the train compartment; three women middle-aged talking and looking out of the window. L/S panning left of the marshalling yards; we can see a few steam trains puffing away in the distance. M/Ss of the yards with two long steam freight trains - one coming towards us, one going away from us; a signal box; then inside the signal box of the operator at his control desk as a goods train moves slowly past. C/U of the console as he turns a switch. Commentator says this is “Temple Mills... most modern marshalling yard in Europe, with novel features like what appear to be robot trucks operating themselves“, as we see in M/S a freight truc