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- 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.
- A look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday lives.
- Collage film about the history of trains set to music.
- The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.
- The movie follows the routine of a busy train station - London's Waterloo Station - making a brief yet important cultural portrait of 1960s England, mixing reality and fiction.
- 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 some reason. His laces become caught on the tracks and he has an accident so serious that he will never play football again. A film for showing to eight to eleven-year old children and their parents, which points out the folly of breaking railway fences and trespassing on the line, and illustrates the immediate dangers.
- This British government public-information film is aimed at children and shows them the dangers of playing on railway tracks.
- A look at the future of the railways in Britain.
- A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.
- A London Transport infomercial introducing the public to the first generation of automatic ticket gates at stations.
- A day in the life of London and the Home Counties in 1962, seen from the perspective of the use of London Transport facilities from buses and tubes to long distance coach routes. Accompanied by extracts from BBC radio.
- A Freight Train travelling between Kirkby and Barnard Castle has become snowbound in the Westmoreland hills. The Motive Power, Operating and Engineering Departments go to work with snowploughs to reach the trapped train.
- 28 minute account of sorting and delivering letters.
- John Betjeman goes on a train journey from King's Lynn to Hunstanton in Norfolk, extolling the pleasures of traveling on a rural branch line.
- The cycle of the seasons in the land around Selborne in Hampshire, home town of Gilbert White, country parson and naturalist.
- Commemorates the closure of London's tramways.
- A look at the wildlife living on the seashore in the UK.
- The Cotswolds are the largest areas of Britain, stretching over a hundred miles from Chipping Camden to the city of Bath.
- Short documentary from British Transport Films highlighting the introduction of the diesel rail-car at various locations in England.
- A travel guide to the English county of Sussex.
- Documental account of trains, railway workers, passengers and landscapes in the winter of 1963 in the UK (The Big Freeze).
- Showing how signals and points were maintained and emergency repairs conducted in the early 1950s.
- A series of minor mistakes and poor decisions by multiple British Rail employees leads a train to become increasingly late.
- Exploration of the Slimbridge Wild Fowl Trust in Gloucestershire, England, which boasts the largest collection of living wild fowl in the world.
- Time lapse photography shows the swarm of commuters at London Waterloo station racing about at top speed.
- The construction of the Severn tunnel and a record of the unique group of six Cornish beam engines which kept the tunnel free of water for over 70 years before being replaced by electric pumps.
- A guided tour of the once famous Aldenham bus overhaul works of London Transport in the 1950s.
- This documentary from British Transport Films follows 24 hours in the life of three British Railways Channel ferry services.
- Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to London on new British Railways Blue Pullman units. As with earlier British Transport Films, many of the personnel, scientists, engineers, crew and passengers were featured in the 20 minute film. It won several awards, including the Technical & Industrial Information section of the Festival for Films for Television in 1961. The film is also particularly noted for its score, by Clifton Parker, which, unlike the earlier Elizabethan Express is uninterrupted by any commentary. (Wikipedia)
- The history of British Railways from George Stephenson's early inventions in 1825 to the present day.
- The story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.
- A short documentary about the transportation of goods and livestock by train around the UK.
- In the Hull Docks, the steamer S.S. Bravo arrives from Gothenburg with cargo.
- Although produced by British Transport Films, this was commissioned by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a way of showing off British engineering to potential overseas markets.