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- Bill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.
- Collage film about the history of trains set to music.
- 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.
- This British government public-information film is aimed at children and shows them the dangers of playing on railway tracks.
- 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.
- Animated safety guide, featuring Charlie, an accident-prone railwayman.
- 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 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.
- This was the sixth (of thirteen) in a series of reports made for and about the British Railways Modernisation Plan, looking at a number of innovations being introduced.
- Recent modernization in equipment and rolling stock on British Railways.
- A look at British involvement in the construction of the new double-track railway from Kowloon, on Hong Kong's harbor, to the Chinese border.
- Aimed at the overseas market (and with one or two references that would not be acceptable as politically correct today) this film extols the virtue of using rail services for travelers visiting Britain.
- Development of the electric train service to replace steam between London, Southampton and Bournemouth.
- A look at some of the diesel locomotives that were taking over from steam traction on the railways in the mid-1960s in Britain.
- When a new coal field is discovered in Yorkshire twelve miles of the East Coast main railway line requires diversion. This looks at the planning involved in making this happen efficiently with the minimum of disruption.
- A film aimed at showing young people the range of careers open to them if they joined British Rail as an apprentice. It shows the support and education given to apprentices during their training.
- Charting the impact of Dr Richard Beeching's report into the Reshaping of British Railways, published in 1963. It proposed that of our 18,000-mile network, 6,000 miles of mostly rural branch and cross-country lines should close.