Monorail Switch

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1496A

Date Released

6 Feb 1958

Date submitted

4 Feb 1958

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1England Beats Wallabies
2. 2Princess Grace at Prize-Giving
3. 3Monorail Switch
4. 4Egypt and Syria Unite
5. 5Israel Command Change
6. 6Fire in Havana
7. 7The ‘Explorer’ in Orbit
8. *Wales V Scotland - Rugby
9. *East Fife V Hearts

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Monorail Siding System. DESCRIPTION: Latest pictures from Germany show how one of the biggest problems of the monorail can be solved: it’s the problem of aiding to permit a regulated flow of traffic in each direction, while still retaining only one line for most of the route. SHOTLIST: Shots of Monorail working. CUs siding working. Electro motors used to drive the Monorail siding.

Keywords

Railways; Transport

Locations

Germany; Cologne

Footage sources

Germany

Card file number

72750

Credits:

Commentator

Jeffrey K. Shearley

Length of story (in feet)

66

Story extras:

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