Most Viewed From British Transport Films

Thirty Million Letters is a 1963 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie and made by British Transport Films. It was nominated for an...

'Water', says the transport man, 'is lovely stuff' - and the development plan for British Waterways is based on this belief. The film shows parts of...

Sets out to persuade businesspeople of the advantages of going from city to city by train. How it gives them time to relax, work or sleep in comfort.

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

An Englishman has just got off the train at St. Enoch Station and is asking a cab driver to show him around Glasgow. Naturally, the cab driver is...

A stop-motion animation aimed at young people, discouraging vandalism on railway lines, by pointing out the dangers.

Coach passengers give their reasons for preferring that type of transport. A group of ramblers visit the Welsh mountains; an angler and his family...

Collage film about the history of trains set to music.

The Yorkshire Dales - 'from which no traveller wishes to return'. Sheltering under the Pennines, the Dales have escaped the human ravages of time....

The epic of the earliest days of Britain's railways and the men who built them. It concentrates on the achievements of George and Robert Stephenson...

A journalist chats on the unusual excursions possible from nodal stations on Europe's train networks. Douglas Browne, journalist and traveller, takes...

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

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

Replacing a railway bridge over a main road in 15 1/2 hours between the last train on Saturday night and the first on Sunday morning, at Amersham,...

A journey from London King's Cross to Peterborough on the fastest Inter-City Special - at a speed of well over 1250 mph! A sped-up four-minute High...

Donald Houston plays a Welshman who tells the story of what it's like to live in small town Wales and how the train service helps.

Examines Britian's industrial heritage, concentrating on the period between 1708 and 1850, and showing many examples of surviving relics of the...

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

Based on the sequence of events which led to the deaths of two young trackmen, concluding with an enquiry into the reasons why they were killed....

A BAFTA nominated documentary on the canals of England illustrated by a journey from London to Birmingham produced for the staff of the Docks and...