Movies

In 1905, on a rescue mission to the North Pole to retrieve an old friend and his lost expedition crew, Captain Mortimer gets more than he bargained...

How the London Transport Board, with the aid of modern technology, is tackling the problems brought about by an ever increasing volume of traffic....

Neptune, an automatic and electronically equipped track fault recorder; Tinsley marshalling yard; freight trains - cement, limestone, cars; Reading...

Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire,...

The electrification of the London Midland Region main line between London, Manchester and Liverpool at 25KV AC, using overhead wires and drawing...

This film shows the operating procedures necessary for protection on a double track in the event of a mishap affecting the opposite line. We see the...

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...

Captures the work of the British Rail Parcel Service, illustrating the story of five different consignments over a twenty-four hour period. These...

Two and a half million passengers every day all over the country; thousands of trains, each to be cleaned at the end of its journey. This film shows...

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

Introducing the new electric services between the West Midlands, Stoke, London and the North-West. A service which started 6th March 1967 which is...

Report No. 9 in a series of 13 topical films, covering: Euston; ships - Freightliner II, Antrim Princess; container handling Parkeston Quay;...

The film's contents are as follows: Merry-go-round coal trains - between collieries and power stations; Motorail; stations - Birmingham New St.,...

The film tells the story of the building of a new generation of high speed Inter-City trains. As well as providing speed and air-conditioned comfort,...

Made for school children, Old Sam reminisces over the old days of the railways and tells of the modern railway of today and how modernisation has...

The London Motor Club members, with their families, took their cars by Motorail for a contest with the Torbay club, and the camera was there to...

Marks an era of rail advancement in Scotland 1979/80, in both passenger and freight markets. For showing to opinion formers in local government, and...

The newest Southern electrified route, London-Southampton-Bournemouth, is the subject of this film. After a glimpse of the old days of steam, we...