British Transport Films Movies

Two visitors enjoying Scotland, an enthusiastic but inexperienced golfer improving on the world's greatest courses; his wife exploring spectacular pla...

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...

Electrification, and the raiIway men of Rugby adopt new methods and use new machines. In this film they tell in their own words of the great technolog...

Short documentary hymning the wonders of 'modernisation' on the railways.

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

People will always need transport and transport will always need people. Addressed particularly to boys of school-leaving age and to young men complet...

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

The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.

Aspects of the precision and drama of locomotive manufacture, composed to form a lively pattern in picture and sound.

A day in the life of London and the Home Counties in 1962, seen from the perspective of the use of London Transport facilities from buses and tubes to...

Report No. 10 in a series of 13 topical films, covering: Hovercraft, Princess Ann; the Advanced Passenger Train; Design Centre exhibition, The next tr...

Part of BFI collection "The Age of the Train."

Part of BFI collection "The Age of the Train."

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 i...

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

A 200-ton transformer is moved by road from Hayes, Middlesex, to Iver, Bucks. Behind the story of the journey there is another tale: the problems whic...

An historical account looking at how Britain's canals were used, and declining, in 1951.

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

A musical illustration of life, where road traffic chaos breeds anger and frustration, but the rail network is fast, smooth and relaxing.

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 availab...