British Transport Films Movies

In the cities of Britain we can travel in time as well as space. This film chooses the England of Hogarth, Gainsborough, Robert Adam and Captain Cook....

Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from t...

This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours...

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...

Britain operates the most experienced diesel and electric railway in tne world. A century and a half ago she invented the steam engine and introduced...

British Transport film.

The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.

The British Railways modernisation programme of the 1960s radically changed the rail network, and the British Transport Films unit and the TV news wer...

The Peak District waits invitingly within a sixty-mile reach of half the population of England. To this green centre of a great industrial area, the f...

The Cotswolds are the largest areas of Britain, stretching over a hundred miles from Chipping Camden to the city of Bath.

The flora and fauna of the Scottish highlands, including footage of ospreys, and stags in Argyle.

A tour of East Anglia, with its waterways and low-lying country.

An express freight train links manufacturers with their customers at the other end of Britain.

Intended for training railway permanent way men, capturing how men working on the track react as a train approaches.

The electrification of the London Midland Region main line between London, Manchester and Liverpool at 25KV AC, using overhead wires and drawing suppl...

Snowploughs are readied to rescue a snowbound train - in one of the most popular of all British Transport Films.

A film about one of the most responsible and professional jobs on British Railways. Practical work in shop and signal box, on gantry and trackside, co...

As a training exercise for their apprentice camera operators, British Transport Films used surplus roll end length of film to record the daily lives o...

The re-signalling of 1000 track miles from the River Weaver to the Clyde brings the whole line from London to Glasgow under one system of push-button...

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.