Most Viewed From British Transport Films

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

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 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...

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

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,...

In the Hull Docks, the steamer S.S. Bravo arrives from Gothenburg with cargo.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

How the London Transport Board, with the aid of modern technology, is tackling the problems brought about by an ever increasing volume of traffic....

Report No. 9 in a series of 13 topical films, covering: Euston; ships - Freightliner II, Antrim Princess; container handling Parkeston Quay;...

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 history of the BRS (British Road Services), the general haulage network of the UK. Part of BFI collection "Points and Aspects."

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

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

The film's contents are as follows: Merry-go-round coal trains - between collieries and power stations; Motorail; stations - Birmingham New St.,...

The Nine Road is the busman's name for one of London's oldest and most used bus routes, running between Mortlake and Liverpool Street. The film takes...

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...