7 OCTOBER 1949, Page 13

To Brighton in Four Minutes Another journey—on television—was really somewhat

staggering. They set up a camera in the driver's cab of a Victoria-Brighton train ; started the camera, as the train left, at high speed ; and filmed the entire fifty-odd mile journey in four minutes (if you follow me). This, shown on Television Newsreel, gave us the impression of travelling at 70o m.p.h. along the whole route. How the stations, tunnels, curves, points, bridges, and embankments flicked past ! How we winced at the Brighton buffers I I am not sure that my imagination tingled and stirred ; something certainly did.