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

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

A British Transport Film, in German!

Intended for training railway permanent way men, capturing how men working on the track react as a train approaches.

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...

The City of Sheffield is renewing itself, but until recently Sheffield's railway network exemplified the confusion and inefficiency created by...

The extension of the electrification of the Southend line from Shenfield to Southend. The last steam train leaves Liverpool Street and makes its way...

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

Part three 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...

An American couple tour Britain with a teenage girl, visiting London, Canterbury, Cambridge, the West Country, Caernarvon, etc.

The pleasures of sailing off the Isle of Wight are described by Uffa Fox, while Ralph Wightman tells of the peaceful life of its farms and villages.

The final episode of five reports on the construction of the Victoria Line in London. This one is edited highlights from the first four with very...

‘St Christopher’s - for the children of Railway Servants’. About a hundred children are cared for at this Derby railway orphanage...

A journey from London King's Cross to Peterborough on the fastest Inter-City Special - at a speed of well over 1250 mph! A sped-up four-minute High...

Number 73020, a standard Class 5 locomotive, has been in traffic for sixteen days, and goes back to the sheds for cleaning inside and out and a...

As a training exercise for their apprentice camera operators, British Transport Films used surplus roll end length of film to record the daily lives...

Coach passengers give their reasons for preferring that type of transport. A group of ramblers visit the Welsh mountains; an angler and his family...

This film shows us a world of wildlife and flowers and scenic beauty within easy reach of London - where people can enjoy yachting on the Thames, or...

Prince Phillip drives a Warship loco at an exhibition of locomotive development held at Marylebone Station.

The constructional techniques of the 1974 building attempt. Also examines the history and background of the tunnel project, and outlines the...