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- 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.
- 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.
- A look at the wildlife living on the seashore in the UK.
- 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.
- A farmer who sells up and moves his whole farm south in the winter.
- A look at the future of the railways in Britain.
- 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.
- Exploration of the Slimbridge Wild Fowl Trust in Gloucestershire, England, which boasts the largest collection of living wild fowl in the world.
- 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)
- 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 happy to oblige and the visitor gets to see the City first hand.
- The story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.
- The cycle of the seasons in the land around Selborne in Hampshire, home town of Gilbert White, country parson and naturalist.
- 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 look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday lives.
- A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.
- 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.
- A series of minor mistakes and poor decisions by multiple British Rail employees leads a train to become increasingly late.
- A collage of trains running on London railway lines set to music.
- A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.
- The Cotswolds are the largest areas of Britain, stretching over a hundred miles from Chipping Camden to the city of Bath.
- How to dispose of the 23 million tons of household rubbish produced each year in Britain.
- Animated safety guide, featuring Charlie, an accident-prone railwayman.
- Documental account of trains, railway workers, passengers and landscapes in the winter of 1963 in the UK (The Big Freeze).
- 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.
- In 1976, British Rail introduced an iconic new train, the HST (High Speed Train) 125, which was capable of travelling at up to 125 mph. A marketing campaign fronted by Jimmy Savile using the slogan "This is the age of the train" helped revive the poor image and looming financial crisis of British Rail.
- The Roberts find a world of literature awaiting in the English Lake District, an area so abundant with beauty it inspired celebrated authors like William Wordsworth and Beatrix Potter. The Roberts get a chance to explore some of the area stories at the World of Beatrix Potter Museum and the natural surroundings.
- A film showing the development of the Freightliner services in Britain and how it was of benefit to both rail, sea and road transport. It also looks at how it extended across Europe.
- Travelogue of the Scottish Highlands, including Edinburg and Glasgow, featuring stunning views and adventure holidays.
- Commemorates the closure of London's tramways.
- Exploring the contrast between road transport congestion and rail transport.
- An information and marketing film about the extension of electrified rail services between London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester.
- A story of Sam Smith, a British train driver.
- A film that has been shot from the drivers cam so it appears that the train is travelling at 1250 mph between London and Peterborough. It was released as a promotional novelty.
- How to drive a diesel multiple-unit train.