British Transport Films Movies

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

There have been railways in this country for over three hundred years. In the nineteenth century, railways spread across Britain and changed the geogr...

Driver Sam Smith is given the privilege of driving one of the new electric trains. But when a problem arises, it takes three very different Sams befor...

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

Documentary from British Transport Films

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

A BAFTA nominated documentary on the canals of England illustrated by a journey from London to Birmingham.

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

Report No. 8 in a series of 13 topical films, produced since the far reaching plan for the modernisation and re-equipment of British Railways in 1955...

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

Sussex - A country rich in scenic beauty and history. South Down and Weald - open space and green woodland. This is Sussex, a county rich in scenic be...

A cautionary tale of a typical holiday suitcase. Crammed beyond its capacity, imperfectly fastened, inadequately and confusedly labelled, the railways...

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

People will always need transport and transport will always need people. Addressed particularly to boys of school-leaving age and to young men complet...

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 happ...

Film charting the development of the London bus from 1829 to 1979, with the 150th anniversary of Shilibeer's first service, featuring a procession of...

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

A poet's eulogy to his beloved mode of transport.

Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshi...

The holiday attractions of the Lancashire coast, including a beauty contest in Morecambe, Southport flower show and Blackpool Fun Fair.