British Transport Films Movies

As a training exercise for their apprentice camera operators, British Transport Films used surplus roll end length of film to record the daily lives...

The final episode of five reports on the construction of the Victoria Line in London. This one is edited highlights from the first four with very...

A review of innovation and development within BR and its businesses, including: modernisation of freight facilities and service to new companies;...

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

A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.

A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.

A compilation film about the complex railway systems of Great Britain, demonstrating the work and individual responsibilities of many departments.

Continuing the study of the normal tasks performed by a permanent-way gang, this film deals with the maintenance of switches, common crossings and...

‘St Christopher’s - for the children of Railway Servants’. About a hundred children are cared for at this Derby railway orphanage...

Kay Mander kept training and social issues to the fore in the 1940s with her innovative documentaries. Mander, now living in Kirkcudbrightshire,...

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

Promotional tourist film, presenting a history of Britain concentrating on landscape and Inter-City travel.

A look at British involvement in the construction of the new double-track railway from Kowloon, on Hong Kong's harbour, to the Chinese border.

Building a new harbour at Port Talbot - it’s a man’s world in which the only females are a dredger and two seafaring vessels.

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

How the London Transport Board, with the aid of modern technology, is tackling the problems brought about by an ever increasing volume of traffic....

Report No. 9 in a series of 13 topical films, covering: Euston; ships - Freightliner II, Antrim Princess; container handling Parkeston Quay;...

The Cotswolds are the largest areas of Britain, stretching over a hundred miles from Chipping Camden to the city of Bath.

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...

The complex technology of modern rail track is shown, covering component manufacturers, current methods of laying track and its maintenance.