London’s Screen Archives enables Londoners see their past come alive on film. Managed by Film London, we are a unique network of historic film collections that cares for, collects and screens heritage film across the city. Together we preserve London’s rich film heritage from feature films to home movies, public information films, newsreels, and records of the capital’s many different industries.
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Underground ticket barrier experiments, 1963
London Transport engineers experiment with two options for the automatic ticket gates being developed for the Victoria line.
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Overview
London Transport’s Victoria line included a number of novel features, including the first automatic ticket gates, with magnetically encoded tickets, developed in-house by the signal engineering team. This short film shows two alternative designs for the gates, and records passenger flow, which was calculated to be up to 30 people per minute. Trials of the new gates began at Stamford Brook in 1964, and the Victoria line opened in 1968.
This film is from the collection of London Transport Museum, a member of the London's Screen Archives Network.
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