Most Viewed From British Transport Films

Captures the work of the British Rail Parcel Service, illustrating the story of five different consignments over a twenty-four hour period. These...

A BAFTA award winning documentary focussing on how drivers are trained to drive new electric trains in the UK.

Two and a half million passengers every day all over the country; thousands of trains, each to be cleaned at the end of its journey. This film shows...

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

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire,...

This short, evocative account of the poet's life is set among contemporary scenes of the people of south-west Scotland as they grow from children to...

Report No. 8 in a series of 13 topical films, produced since the far reaching plan for the modernisation and re-equipment of British Railways in 1955...

One of six films which examine in depth the work involved in this great engineering project. As they are of a technical nature, they were only...

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

Collage film about the history of trains set to music.

Dr Beeching, Chairman of the British Transport Commission, sits at a desk addressing workers. Intended to be shown before a programme of other...

A step-by-step description of how power from the national grid is supplied to British Railways.

How to dispose of the 23 million tons of household rubbish produced each year in Britain.

An animated film on safety, featuring 'Charlie', a cartoon railwayman.

An insufferable journey by 'The Pain Train' shows how seconds lost by staff, for one slight reason or another, can quickly add up; causing a train to...

Through the forward-looking windows of the new diesel multiple-unit trains reveals a new world of signs, signals and railway sights to those who ride...

Aimed at the overseas market (and with one or two references that would not be acceptable as politically correct today) this film extols the virtue...

Documentary from British Transport Films

Everyday except Christmas London Transport run coach tours of London. The tours start from Victoria and from Piccadilly Circus; there is no booking...