Railway Movies

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Celebrating 200 years of rail, Guy helps to rebuild, and learns to drive, the world’s most important train for a recreation of the journey that...

Madame Tutli-Putli boards the Night Train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past. She travels alone, facing both...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The Ghan is an innovative three-hour documentary that takes the viewer on an immersive, visually stunning journey on Australia's most iconic...

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

This film shows a cab ride from Crewe to Holyhead on-board 37418 ‘East Lancashire Railway’ for a trip down the coast from Crewe to...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A visit to Peterlee, Co. Durham.

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A light and somewhat satirical look at the problems and pleasures of Continental holiday travel. A passenger on the Hook Continental Express from...

Speed has always played a particularly important role in railroads. New, ever better technologies have been developed throughout history. Engineers...

This film gives a fine panoramic view of this wonderful railway track through immense gorges and cuttings and snow baulks of from 15 to 20 feet high...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

This opens with a view of the upper falls and great viaduct of the mountain railway, showing ascending and descending cars, and then a close view of...

Released in February of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

July. Major holiday departures. TGV Paris-Brest. Alex does her first steps as a train controller on a great line, flanked by her colleague Antoine....

Another volume of highlights from the 1950s and 1960s television series about the vanishing train lines. Here a bevvy of beautiful locomotives take...

The spectacular railroad panorama in the Alps, taken from a train passing through various tunnels, and over the great Wassen Loops.