Most Viewed From British Transport Films

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

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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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

A look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday lives.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Donald Houston

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

In the Hull Docks, the steamer S.S. Bravo arrives from Gothenburg with cargo.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Devlin

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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"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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The Channel Islands have had a varied and exciting history. Jersey and Guernsey are ideal places for holidays. Jersey offers a wide variety of...

Genre: Documentary

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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

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

A film looking at the first 100 years of the Underground Railway in London from 1863 to 1963. A range of well known people and senior managers speak...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Rowdon

Light verse and gay music make their own comment on the holidaymakers of the Yorkshire coastline. Between Tees and Humber thousands each year enjoy...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Shaw

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

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

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Cast: Deryck Guyler

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Murray

A cheerful and very colourful pastiche of live action with combined graphics set to the music of Muir Mathieson. This film typifies the image British...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Baker

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Shaw

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

Collage film about the history of trains set to music.

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