Most Viewed From British Transport Films

This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

Britain operates the most experienced diesel and electric railway in tne world. A century and a half ago she invented the steam engine and introduced...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Murray

When a schoolboy's day-dream of a fantasy sports day includes events where acts of vandalism and trespass are required, dire consequences ensue....

Genre: Action

Cast: Antony Carrick

A film about one of the most responsible and professional jobs on British Railways. Practical work in shop and signal box, on gantry and trackside,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Stockbridge

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Shaw

The Peak District waits invitingly within a sixty-mile reach of half the population of England. To this green centre of a great industrial area, the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Shaw

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

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Hawkins

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Brewster Mason

Between the Tides is a 1958 short documentary directed by Ralph Keene for British Transport Films.It is a study of the animal and plant life of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Murray

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Cast: John Betjeman

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: MacDonald Hobley

Young Robbie, a keen footballer and a railway enthusiast, is persuaded by his big brother to go through a hole in a railway fence on to the track for...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Peter Purves

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Slater

Intended as a sales tool for manufacturers, this short film details the production installation and maintenance for long welded track in use on...

Genre: Documentary

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In the cities of Britain we can travel in time as well as space. This film chooses the England of Hogarth, Gainsborough, Robert Adam and Captain...

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Documentary

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The history of the BRS (British Road Services), the general haulage network of the UK. Part of BFI collection "Points and Aspects."

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Cast: Leonard Martin