Most Viewed From British Transport Films

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Goodliffe

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Peter Purves

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Antony Carrick

Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the multi-award-winning classic that emerged from...

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sam Heydon

Twenty-four hours in the story of the British Railways Channel ferryboats, the 'link spans' directly joining the roads and railways of Britain with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Goodliffe

Britain operates the most experienced diesel and electric railway in tne world. A century and a half ago she invented the steam engine and introduced...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Murray

Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Wheatley

Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to...

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Documentary

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

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gary Watson

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

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Shaw

"Rail" captures British Railways at a major turning-point in its history. In certain respects, this was a period of considerable upheaval and loss....

Genre: Documentary

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Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Purves

A fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Brewster Mason

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Cast: John Betjeman

Sussex - A country rich in scenic beauty and history. South Down and Weald - open space and green woodland. This is Sussex, a county rich in scenic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Halliday