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A freight train travelling between Kirkby and Barnard Castle has become snowbound in the Westmoreland hills. The Motive Power, Operating and...
Snowdrift at Bleath Gill
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...
Diesel Trainride
Kay Mander kept training and social issues to the fore in the 1940s with her innovative documentaries. Mander, now living in Kirkcudbrightshire,...
One Continuous Take: Kay Mander's Life in Film
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 Letter for Wales
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...
Glasgow Belongs to Me
A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.
Any Man's Kingdom
“Promotes trade with Britain among other countries in the European Community after the UK's entry on 1st January 1973. Kelloggs is given as an...
The Key to Britain
This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours...
Terminus
All freight movements over Britain's rail network are monitored and controlled by an advanced computer-based system known as TOPS (Total Operations...
Using Tops
Report No. 10 in a series of 13 topical films, covering: Hovercraft, Princess Ann; the Advanced Passenger Train; Design Centre exhibition, The next...
Rail Report 10: Our Business Is Moving
The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.
They Take the High Road
An historical account looking at how Britain's canals were used, and declining, in 1951.
There Go the Boats
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...
Rail Report 11: Rails Conserve the Environment
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...
...All That Mighty Heart...
Neptune, an automatic and electronically equipped track fault recorder; Tinsley marshalling yard; freight trains - cement, limestone, cars; Reading...
Rail Report 6: The Good Way to Travel
A look at British involvement in the construction of the new double-track railway from Kowloon, on Hong Kong's harbour, to the Chinese border.
A New Approach to Hong Kong
A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.
The England of Elizabeth
‘St Christopher’s - for the children of Railway Servants’. About a hundred children are cared for at this Derby railway orphanage...
Care of St Christopher’s
"Rail" captures British Railways at a major turning-point in its history. In certain respects, this was a period of considerable upheaval and loss....
Rail
Based on the sequence of events which led to the deaths of two young trackmen, concluding with an enquiry into the reasons why they were killed....
Who's in Charge?