Using Tops

Name: Using Tops
Director: Ken Fairbairn
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1978-01-01
Duration: 19 min
Cast: Frank Windsor

19780h 19m★ —Dir. Ken Fairbairn

Documentary

All freight movements over Britain's rail network are monitored and controlled by an advanced computer-based system known as TOPS (Total Operations Processing System). The film follows the progress of a wagon load of equipment from Truro to the Midlands and shows how TOPS makes it possible to accommodate a last minute change of plan.