British Transport Films Movies

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...

A short documentary about the transportation of goods and livestock by train around the UK.

When a schoolboy's day-dream of a fantasy sports day includes events where acts of vandalism and trespass are required, dire consequences ensue. Origi...

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...

A film looking at the first 100 years of the Underground Railway in London from 1863 to 1963. A range of well known people and senior managers speak a...

British Transport film.

Southampton, a deep-water port with four tides a day, is an ocean terminal for the world's largest liners. Their coming and going, and the people who...

First transmitted in 1969, this documentary follows the construction of the world’s most advanced underground system. Macdonald Hastings narrates the...

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...

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

How the London Transport Board, with the aid of modern technology, is tackling the problems brought about by an ever increasing volume of traffic. Col...

A film aimed at showing young people the range of careers open to them if they joined British Rail as an apprentice. It shows the support and educatio...

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

The transporting of a distillation colurm, 137 feet long, 500 miles by road from Greenwich to Grangemouth in Scotland. The commentary, spoken by the r...

Documentary from British Transport Films

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...

A look at British involvement in the construction of the new double-track railway from Kowloon, on Hong Kong's harbour, to the Chinese border.

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

A short documentary.