ITN Roving Report: French Railways

ITN Roving Report: French Railways; Drivers in cab as one standing smokingHands on wheel, electric information monitorsDriver smoking cigaretteView through drivers window of front of engine and empty tracks ahead as alongPantograph on top of trainElectricity information dial, other dials and equipment PantographEXTTwo steam engines along emitting lots of steam and smoke as pulling heavy loadElectric engine pulling heavy load along same stretch of trackINTBarry sitting with Head of French Railways Public Relations Department and interview SOT- compares costs of travel on French and British railways / there are special reductions / railways are a public servicePeople queuing to buy tickets at 2nd class windowsMan working huge ticket machineLeather suitcase with strap round it carried and put down on ledge as Barry at window buying ticketMan working huge ticket machine and man hands ticket to Barry and Barry hands over moneyVillenneuve-St-George: EXT/SNOWTwo men in control box watching goods trains in marshalling yardWagons along snowy tracks over points, trucks alongPhotoelectric cell detector in camera like case beside lines, points moving, trucks past the photoelectric equipment, metal ball dropping down which moves the points electrically