Most Viewed From British Transport Films

Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from...

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Murray

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Rowdon

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

Genre: Documentary

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The electrification of the London Midland Region main line between London, Manchester and Liverpool at 25KV AC, using overhead wires and drawing...

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Wheatley

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Shaw

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wallace Campbell

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Goodliffe

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Donald Houston

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

Genre: Documentary

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A cheerful and very colourful pastiche of live action with combined graphics set to the music of Muir Mathieson. This film typifies the image British...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Baker

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Peter Purves

A film about one of the most responsible and professional jobs on British Railways. Practical work in shop and signal box, on gantry and trackside,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Stockbridge

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Shaw

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

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Halliday

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Duncan

The re-signalling of 1000 track miles from the River Weaver to the Clyde brings the whole line from London to Glasgow under one system of push-button...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gary Watson