Edgar Anstey Movies

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

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

After the last train at night and before the first in the morning, 800 people are hard at work behind the scenes making London's Underground fit to...

A tour of East Anglia, with its waterways and low-lying country.

Between the Tides is a 1958 short documentary directed by Ralph Keene for British Transport Films.It is a study of the animal and plant life of...

When Joe Miller breaks his ankle on the shop floor, he is sent with some trepidation to the British Railways rehab centre, a cross between a modern...

A fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance.

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

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 documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.

On the shortest journey you pass a church or two. Out of the 20,000 churches in Britain, the artist, John Piper, whose work contributes to the glory...

Snowploughs are readied to rescue a snowbound train - in one of the most popular of all British Transport Films.

The Peak District waits invitingly within a sixty-mile reach of half the population of England. To this green centre of a great industrial area, the...

SELNEC is the largest public transport system in Britain, outside London, covering South East Lancashire and North East Cheshire. The film shows some...

The transporting of a distillation colurm, 137 feet long, 500 miles by road from Greenwich to Grangemouth in Scotland. The commentary, spoken by the...

Coach passengers give their reasons for preferring that type of transport. A group of ramblers visit the Welsh mountains; an angler and his family...

A journalist chats on the unusual excursions possible from nodal stations on Europe's train networks. Douglas Browne, journalist and traveller, takes...

A look at the transport system in the South Wales Valleys and how it effects peoples livelihoods and everyday lives.

Underlines the importance of waterways as mans of modern transport. Details the way in which the network of waterways covers britain.

In the cities of Britain we can travel in time as well as space. This film chooses the England of Hogarth, Gainsborough, Robert Adam and Captain...