Movies

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

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

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...

A school journey through the city of London as seen through the eyes of the children and their teacher.

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...

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...

The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.

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 holiday attractions of the Lancashire coast, including a beauty contest in Morecambe, Southport flower show and Blackpool Fun Fair.

Intended as a sales tool for manufacturers, this short film details the production installation and maintenance for long welded track in use on...

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

A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

Through the forward-looking windows of the new diesel multiple-unit trains reveals a new world of signs, signals and railway sights to those who ride...

Packaged holidays for the elderly: a party of 'senior citizens' (60-plus) on a holiday which includes a special train from Newcastle to the Isle of...