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Explains how to drive a diesel multiple-unit train.

British Transport Film.

Encourages the prospect of hosting an intercity exhibition on rails, with the potential to travel all across Europe.

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

Many of today's railway problems were created during the years of competition between the various railway companies. At Sheffield, for instance,...

A film made for the staff of the (then) British Rail featuring mainly Sir Peter Parker explaining to staff how, as the new Chairman, he intended to...

A short documentary.

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...

Part of BFI collection "London on the Move."

Impressions of a great city from daybreak to dusk. A roving camera and smooth theme music say more than words. London's traditional sights -...

A report on the progress of the Bedford/St. Pancras suburban electrification scheme. An internal BR staff film which would not have been generally...

Part of BFI collection "The Age of the Train."

Five and a half minutes from Paddington to Birmingham Snow Hill, in the driver's cab of the Blue Pullman to the accompianiment of Johann Strauss's...

The first in a series of five films covering the construction of the London Underground's new 'Victoria' Line. This was to be BTF's largest single...

Instructs gangers and lengthmen how the Hallade Track recorder makes a continous record of the movements of a train during a journey and so shows up...

A British Transport Film.

A British Transport Film.

Red double-decker buses are one of the main features of the streets of London, but to the citizens of continental Europe, accustomed to...

A British Transport Film.

Sir Brian Robertson addresses the staff of British rail on the subject of the rationalisation and modernisation of the railways as set out in a new...