Automatic Train Operation

From the collection of

London’s Screen Archives
London’s Screen Archives is a network of over 50 organisations with a collective vision – to preserve and share London’s history on film. The network is managed by Film London and we work with our partners to digitise, preserve, and offer access to their moving image collections.

Automatic Train Operation


Though it is taken it for granted today, London Transport and their partners were at the pinnacle of railway technology in the 1960s. This film explains the testing of the new system on the Hainault Loop, a little-used section of the Central line in Essex. Experience the journey through Redbridge and Essex from a London Underground driver's point of view!


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