British Transport Films Movies

A fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance.

The advantages and pleasures of crossing the channel by Hovercraft. In this film a sales executive, with his car and engineering samples, travels to L...

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

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

A group of workers from a Leicester shoe-making company travel down south for a day in the Smoke.

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

The flora and fauna of the Scottish highlands, including footage of ospreys, and stags in Argyle.

Documentary from British Transport Films

Film charting the development of the London bus from 1829 to 1979, with the 150th anniversary of Shilibeer's first service, featuring a procession of...

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

Documentary from British Transport Films

South Wales is an area of great natural beauty - from the Brecon Beacons in the north of the area to the rugged coastline of Pembrokeshire in the sout...

A record of a winter journey, when a farmer decides to move his whole stock by rail from Yorkshire to Sussex.

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

Packaged holidays for the elderly: a party of 'senior citizens' (60-plus) on a holiday which includes a special train from Newcastle to the Isle of Wi...

In the cities of Britain we can travel in time as well as space. This film chooses the England of Hogarth, Gainsborough, Robert Adam and Captain Cook....

In a world growing ever shorter of energy, railways are well suited to satisfy the world's future transport needs. This is the story of the new railwa...

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...

Electrification, and the raiIway men of Rugby adopt new methods and use new machines. In this film they tell in their own words of the great technolog...

Aspects of the precision and drama of locomotive manufacture, composed to form a lively pattern in picture and sound.