Most Viewed From British Transport Films

The operation of the London Transport central Lost Property Office at Baker Street. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."

Collage film about the history of trains set to music.

Intended for training railway permanent way men, capturing how men working on the track react as a train approaches.

Driver Sam Smith is given the privilege of driving one of the new electric trains. But when a problem arises, it takes three very different Sams...

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

Time lapse photography shows the swarm of commuters at London Waterloo station racing about at top speed.

Documentary from British Transport Films

Captures the work of completely modernising and remodelling the track and signal approaches to Paddington Station in five weeks, showing the...

Impressions of a great city from daybreak to dusk. A roving camera and smooth theme music say more than words. London's traditional sights -...

An American couple tour Britain with a teenage girl, visiting London, Canterbury, Cambridge, the West Country, Caernarvon, etc.

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...

The latest developments in British Transport - whether it be in London buses or in railway sidings at Margam steelworks, in the construction of a...

A largely animated exposition of the need for, and methods of improvement, in British Rail Corporate Planning.

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

The extension of the electrification of the Southend line from Shenfield to Southend. The last steam train leaves Liverpool Street and makes its way...

The London Motor Club members, with their families, took their cars by Motorail for a contest with the Torbay club, and the camera was there to...

A poet's eulogy to his beloved mode of transport.

All freight movements over Britain's rail network are monitored and controlled by an advanced computer-based system known as TOPS (Total Operations...

A film aimed at showing young people the range of careers open to them if they joined British Rail as an apprentice. It shows the support and...

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