British Transport Films Movies

A study of the development of British Rail's hovercraft services in the Solent and across the Channel, using SRN6, HM2 and SRN4 air-cushion vehicles.

The conflict between the running of an efficient bus service and the increasing motor car traffic in Britain's towns. Describes the traffic problem...

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

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...

Journey into Spring is a 1958 British short documentary film directed by Ralph Keene, and made by British Transport Films. The film -- partly a...

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

"Rail" captures British Railways at a major turning-point in its history. In certain respects, this was a period of considerable upheaval and loss....

Documentary from British Transport Films

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

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

Southampton, a deep-water port with four tides a day, is an ocean terminal for the world's largest liners. Their coming and going, and the people who...

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

Snowploughs are readied to rescue a snowbound train - in one of the most popular of all British Transport Films.

When Joe Miller breaks his ankle on the shop floor, he is sent with some trepidation to the British Railways rehab centre, a cross between a modern...

A short documentary about the transportation of goods and livestock by train around the UK.

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

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

Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire,...

SELNEC is the largest public transport system in Britain, outside London, covering South East Lancashire and North East Cheshire. The film shows some...

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