British Transport Films Movies

Twenty-four hours in the story of the British Railways Channel ferryboats, the 'link spans' directly joining the roads and railways of Britain with...

Through the forward-looking windows of the new diesel multiple-unit trains reveals a new world of signs, signals and railway sights to those who ride...

Features the 07.55 from Sheffield to St Pancras. The camera follows to Leicester, where a young man is late for a job interview thanks to a variety...

Time lapse photography shows the swarm of commuters at London Waterloo station racing about at top speed.

Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from...

Captures the work of completely modernising and remodelling the track and signal approaches to Paddington Station in five weeks, showing the...

Young Robbie, a keen footballer and a railway enthusiast, is persuaded by his big brother to go through a hole in a railway fence on to the track for...

"Rail" captures British Railways at a major turning-point in its history. In certain respects, this was a period of considerable upheaval and loss....

An animated film on safety, featuring 'Charlie', a cartoon railwayman.

All freight movements over Britain's rail network are monitored and controlled by an advanced computer-based system known as TOPS (Total Operations...

Two keen hostelling youths, Ken Moody and Brian Cotton, convert a boat in their native Selby into a youth hostel, and get the chance to air their...

The complex technology of modern rail track is shown, covering component manufacturers, current methods of laying track and its maintenance.

A look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday lives.

In the Hull Docks, the steamer S.S. Bravo arrives from Gothenburg with cargo.

Packaged holidays for the elderly: a party of 'senior citizens' (60-plus) on a holiday which includes a special train from Newcastle to the Isle of...

Coach passengers give their reasons for preferring that type of transport. A group of ramblers visit the Welsh mountains; an angler and his family...

A record of a winter journey, when a farmer decides to move his whole stock by rail from Yorkshire to Sussex.

An Englishman has just got off the train at St. Enoch Station and is asking a cab driver to show him around Glasgow. Naturally, the cab driver is...

A stop-motion animation aimed at young people, discouraging vandalism on railway lines, by pointing out the dangers.

Made for senior and middle British Rail management and supervisory staff, to stimulate discussion and provoke action, by alerting them to their...