British Transport Films Popular Movie

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Shaw

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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An express freight train links manufacturers with their customers at the other end of Britain.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James McKechnie

The Channel Islands have had a varied and exciting history. Jersey and Guernsey are ideal places for holidays. Jersey offers a wide variety of...

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

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wallace Campbell

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 record of a winter journey, when a farmer decides to move his whole stock by rail from Yorkshire to Sussex.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: A.G. Street

Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Wheatley

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.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Donald Houston

This is the story of a lorry's solitary journey with a new propeller for a trawler laid up in a port on the rugged sea-coast of Wales. For the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Howard Marion-Crawford

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

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Cast: Deryck Guyler

How the London Transport Board, with the aid of modern technology, is tackling the problems brought about by an ever increasing volume of traffic....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tim Matthews

A compilation film about the complex railway systems of Great Britain, demonstrating the work and individual responsibilities of many departments.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gary Watson

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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Murray

The re-signalling of 1000 track miles from the River Weaver to the Clyde brings the whole line from London to Glasgow under one system of push-button...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gary Watson

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

Genre: Documentary

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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

A cheerful and very colourful pastiche of live action with combined graphics set to the music of Muir Mathieson. This film typifies the image British...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Baker