British Transport Films Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.

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...

Donald Houston plays a Welshman who tells the story of what it's like to live in small town Wales and how the train service helps.

Industrial film showcasing Hull’s status as a thriving international port.

Intended as a sales tool for manufacturers, this short film details the production installation and maintenance for long welded track in use on...

A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.

A BAFTA award winning documentary focussing on how drivers are trained to drive new electric trains in the UK.

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 day in the life of London and the Home Counties in 1962, seen from the perspective of the use of London Transport facilities from buses and tubes...