As the capital’s busiest railway station struggles to cope with soaring passenger demands,a classic 1961 documentary transports us to a very different city
“London’s busiest rail station is creaking under the strain of handling increasingly passengers” and has “an out of date infrastructure that is in parts unchanged since the 1930s, says London TravelWatch, and the capital’s transport users’ watchdog. This view was expressed following a presentation by the managing director of South-West Trains,who said that overcrowding is severe with demand having more than doubled to an annual 230 million passenger journeys since 1995 and expected to rise by a further 40% in the next 30 years.
I mention this firstly because those numbers earn you think and secondly - and, in truth, or primarily - as a pretext for bringing you John Schlesinger’s famous 1961 film Terminus. It’s approximately a day in the life of Waterloo. It’s 33 minutes long. It’s profitable.
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Source: theguardian.com