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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...
Snow
Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along...
Elizabethan Express
A short documentary about the transportation of goods and livestock by train around the UK.
Train Time
Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.
Holiday
The Nine Road is the busman's name for one of London's oldest and most used bus routes, running between Mortlake and Liverpool Street. The film takes...
The Nine Road
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...
Terminus
Report No. 11 in a series of 13 topical films. Because 1970 was European Conservation Year, this issue of the Rail Report Series was devoted to...
Rail Report 11: Rails Conserve the Environment
In every industry men still need skill and knowledge, but the addition of a dash of imagination will often mean more pleasure from the job as well as...
They Had an Idea
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...
Ocean Terminal
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 Finishing Line
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 Peak District
The transporting of a distillation colurm, 137 feet long, 500 miles by road from Greenwich to Grangemouth in Scotland. The commentary, spoken by the...
Dodging the Column
Twenty-four hours in the story of the British Railways Channel ferryboats, the 'link spans' directly joining the roads and railways of Britain with...
Link Span
Sussex - A country rich in scenic beauty and history. South Down and Weald - open space and green woodland. This is Sussex, a county rich in scenic...
Down to Sussex
The film version of Dr. Richard Beeching's plan for the re-shaping of British Railways, showing some of the problems involved, the research...
Reshaping British Railways
A short film focusing on the account of a coaching tour told by the driver, who attempts to try to create a happy atmosphere and cement friendships.
Coaching Holiday
A record of a winter journey, when a farmer decides to move his whole stock by rail from Yorkshire to Sussex.
Farmer Moving South
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...
Between the Tides
There have been railways in this country for over three hundred years. In the nineteenth century, railways spread across Britain and changed the...
Forward to First Principles
The British Railways modernisation programme of the 1960s radically changed the rail network, and the British Transport Films unit and the TV news...
London's Railways in the 1960s