The Drain Up-To-Date

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1634A

Date Released

29 Sep 1960

Date submitted

26 Sep 1960

Stories in this Issue:

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Story No. within this Issue

5 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Drain Up to Date. DESCRIPTION: This station has long been notorious for the subway known to City workers as the Drain, a nightmare for thousands of Londoners. But now they’ve got travolators, the first of their type in the world: two continuous flat platforms that can carry ten thousand people an hour. Over 40,000 a week, mostly concentrated in the rush-hours, will bless the drain, now that it’s been brought up-to-date. SHOTLIST: Key scene. CU sign (Bank). GV people walking through tunnel. MS same. CU sign (train to Waterloo). GV travolator. GV people on travolator. MCU man on travolator. GV people at the foot of travolator. MS mechanism. CU travolator revolving. MCU people on travolator.

Keywords

Railways; Transport; Inventions and discoveries

Locations

England

Card file number

81117

Credits:

Commentator: Jeffrey K. Shearley
Camera: Ken Taylor

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