The Electronic Railway: Innovations in Train Travel (1961) | British Pathé

Take a look at how far we’ve come from 1961 with the remarkable innovations and experimentation that helped bring about modern train travel. For Archive Licensing Enquiries Visit: Explore Our Online Channel For FULL Documentaries, Fascinating Interviews & Classic Movies: #BritishPathé #History #Trains #Electronic #Transportation License this Film: (FILM ID:) Subscribe to the British Pathé YT Channel: 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