British Transport Films Movies

A look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday lives.

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...

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.

In the Hull Docks, the steamer S.S. Bravo arrives from Gothenburg with cargo.

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

“Promotes trade with Britain among other countries in the European Community after the UK's entry on 1st January 1973. Kelloggs is given as an...

Features the 07.55 from Sheffield to St Pancras. The camera follows to Leicester, where a young man is late for a job interview thanks to a variety...

A film looking at the first 100 years of the Underground Railway in London from 1863 to 1963. A range of well known people and senior managers speak...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

The people of the Scottish Highlands live in small communities set in landscapes of unsurpassed beauty.

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

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

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.

Explores the possibilities of the upcoming Channel Tunnel between Britain and France. The final BTF production shot on film.

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