British Transport Films Filmes

British Transport film.

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

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...

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

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

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 film made for the staff of the (then) British Rail featuring mainly Sir Peter Parker explaining to staff how, as the new Chairman, he intended to...

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...

The Channel Islands have had a varied and exciting history. Jersey and Guernsey are ideal places for holidays. Jersey offers a wide variety of...

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

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

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...

The film version of Dr. Richard Beeching's plan for the re-shaping of British Railways, showing some of the problems involved, the research...

Sets out to persuade businesspeople of the advantages of going from city to city by train. How it gives them time to relax, work or sleep in comfort.

Kay Mander kept training and social issues to the fore in the 1940s with her innovative documentaries. Mander, now living in Kirkcudbrightshire,...

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

Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to...

This is the story of a lorry's solitary journey with a new propeller for a trawler laid up in a port on the rugged sea-coast of Wales. For the...

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

Collage film about the history of trains set to music.