Most Viewed From British Transport Films

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...

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

Keeping pace with rapidly developing social and industrial needs is the aim of modernisation on the North Eastern Region. The building of new...

The film version of Dr. Richard Beeching's plan for the re-shaping of British Railways, showing some of the problems involved, the research...

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

Documentary from British Transport Films

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...

Tells the short history of the Transport Ferry Service and shows how a large piece of equipment is delivered in time for an exhibition in Milan.

This film is shown to all recruits to London Transport's railway departments and teaches common-sense practices to be followed when working on London...

In a single year, for stores, materials and fuel British Railways must spend one hundred and thirty million pounds. The purchasing, warehousing and...

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.

Tells the story of four British Road Services drivers who lived and worked together for two years.

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

A British Transport internal training film. Training for Overhead Power Supply (TOPS).

The story of a journey from the Yorkshire Dales to Switzerland via Dover and France, made by a party of schoolgirls showing how British rail...

British Rail film about the rail freight service Speedlink, and the various types of wagon used to transport different cargo.

The techniques and materials used (and attention to detail needed) to clean railway carriages manually.

British Transport film.

Explaining the procedural changes to speed regulations on British railways, using signals with animated diagrams, models, and footage of trains and...