3-022-567 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

A Male Civilian Using System of Levers and Cogs To Make the Automated Railway Marshalling System Work and Empty Wagons Move on Their Own, 1931. 'Something else for the schoolboy in all of us, something wonderfully complex and awe-inspiring. That new, automatic marshalling yard. One man, whom progress has endowed with enormous power, so much did he control. The goods traffic of a nation being pushed and shunted about by the touch of a finger. What couldn't we do?' From "Time To Remember - A New Era", 1931 (Reel 3); documentary about the world in the early 1930s.