Movies

Electrification, and the raiIway men of Rugby adopt new methods and use new machines. In this film they tell in their own words of the great...

The film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort.

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

Thirty Million Letters is a 1963 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie and made by British Transport Films. It was nominated for an...

Exploration of the Slimbridge Wild Fowl Trust in Gloucestershire, England, which boasts the largest collection of living wild fowl in the world.

Light verse and gay music make their own comment on the holidaymakers of the Yorkshire coastline. Between Tees and Humber thousands each year enjoy...

A poet's eulogy to his beloved mode of transport.

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

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...

Twenty-four hours in the story of the British Railways Channel ferryboats, the 'link spans' directly joining the roads and railways of Britain with...

Information on the different groups and organizations that are there to help the population during wartime.

Listen up, apprentices! Learn how to smooth and shape metal – an important wartime skill.

Report No. 8 in a series of 13 topical films, produced since the far reaching plan for the modernisation and re-equipment of British Railways in 1955...

A group of workers from a Leicester shoe-making company travel down south for a day in the Smoke.

‘St Christopher’s - for the children of Railway Servants’. About a hundred children are cared for at this Derby railway orphanage...

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

A documentary looking at a day at Croydon Airport south of London.

The story of a journey from the Yorkshire Dales to Switzerland via Dover and France, made by a party of schoolgirls showing how British rail...

Captures the consumption of gas by various large kitchens in London, during a particular dinner hour.

Time lapse photography shows the swarm of commuters at London Waterloo station racing about at top speed.