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...

An express freight train links manufacturers with their customers at the other end of Britain.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

Neptune, an automatic and electronically equipped track fault recorder; Tinsley marshalling yard; freight trains - cement, limestone, cars; Reading...

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

Part of BFI collection "London on the Move."

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

British Transport film.

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

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

The holiday attractions of the Lancashire coast, including a beauty contest in Morecambe, Southport flower show and Blackpool Fun Fair.