British Transport Films Movies

A fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance.

In a world growing ever shorter of energy, railways are well suited to satisfy the world's future transport needs. This is the story of the new railwa...

The advantages and pleasures of crossing the channel by Hovercraft. In this film a sales executive, with his car and engineering samples, travels to L...

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

Replacing a century-old rail tunnel at Woodhead, co-ordinated road haulage services in Argyllshire, Whitemoor freight marshalling yeard, Bristol bus s...

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

Five and a half minutes from Paddington to Birmingham Snow Hill, in the driver's cab of the Blue Pullman to the accompianiment of Johann Strauss's "Pe...

Captures the work of the British Rail Parcel Service, illustrating the story of five different consignments over a twenty-four hour period. These are:...

Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along the...

The extension of the electrification of the Southend line from Shenfield to Southend. The last steam train leaves Liverpool Street and makes its way f...

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

A compilation film about the complex railway systems of Great Britain, demonstrating the work and individual responsibilities of many departments.

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 Wi...

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....

The story of a journey from the Yorkshire Dales to Switzerland via Dover and France, made by a party of schoolgirls showing how British rail contribut...

A review of innovation and development within BR and its businesses, including: modernisation of freight facilities and service to new companies; prog...

Electrification, and the raiIway men of Rugby adopt new methods and use new machines. In this film they tell in their own words of the great technolog...

The City of Sheffield is renewing itself, but until recently Sheffield's railway network exemplified the confusion and inefficiency created by competi...

A transformer weighing 123 tons has to be moved to a remote site in Blaenau Ffestiniog. This documents its movement by rail and road.

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...