Most Viewed From British Transport Films

The conflict between the running of an efficient bus service and the increasing motor car traffic in Britain's towns. Describes the traffic problem...

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

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

A light and somewhat satirical look at the problems and pleasures of Continental holiday travel. A passenger on the Hook Continental Express from...

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

Documentary from British Transport Films

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

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

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

When Joe Miller breaks his ankle on the shop floor, he is sent with some trepidation to the British Railways rehab centre, a cross between a modern...

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...

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

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...

Journey into Spring is a 1958 British short documentary film directed by Ralph Keene, and made by British Transport Films. The film -- partly a...

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

The epic of the earliest days of Britain's railways and the men who built them. It concentrates on the achievements of George and Robert Stephenson...

An American couple tour Britain with a teenage girl, visiting London, Canterbury, Cambridge, the West Country, Caernarvon, etc.

‘St Christopher’s - for the children of Railway Servants’. About a hundred children are cared for at this Derby railway orphanage...

A school journey through the city of London as seen through the eyes of the children and their teacher.