British Transport Films Movies

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

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...

The complex technology of modern rail track is shown, covering component manufacturers, current methods of laying track and its maintenance.

Donald Houston plays a Welshman who tells the story of what it's like to live in small town Wales and how the train service helps.

A largely animated exposition of the need for, and methods of improvement, in British Rail Corporate Planning.

Features the 07.55 from Sheffield to St Pancras. The camera follows to Leicester, where a young man is late for a job interview thanks to a variety...

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

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...

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

SELNEC is the largest public transport system in Britain, outside London, covering South East Lancashire and North East Cheshire. The film shows some...

Through the forward-looking windows of the new diesel multiple-unit trains reveals a new world of signs, signals and railway sights to those who ride...

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...

“Promotes trade with Britain among other countries in the European Community after the UK's entry on 1st January 1973. Kelloggs is given as an...

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

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

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

An animated film on safety, featuring 'Charlie', a cartoon railwayman.

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.

The people of the Scottish Highlands live in small communities set in landscapes of unsurpassed beauty.

An historical account looking at how Britain's canals were used, and declining, in 1951.