British Transport Films Collection

Made:
1950-1986
maker:
British Transport Films
Flying Scotsman at King's Cross, 1963 Pontycysyllte acqueduct, about 1949 Grand Union canal, 1950 Grand Union canal, 1950 Kennet and Avon Canal, 1950 Showroom in Hull, 1949 Showroom in Hull, 1949 Film crew, 1949 Butter production, 1951 Butter production, 1951 Butter production, 1951 Factory worker, 1950 Film crew, 1950 Film crew, 1950 Track maintenance, 1950 Liner and tug at Southampton, 1950 New cars being transported by rail on conflat. Chiltern Green, June 1965. Combined tamper/liner in action. Combined tamper/liner with crew. Train of tank wagons for transporting liquids British Railways 150-ton trolley wagon, about 1955 Pre WW1 communters seated in multiple unit. Steam railcar. Five car, third rail, electric multiple unit passing signal box at Cromer Road. Woman in sleeping compartment being served tea by attendant. Woman eating bread roll in buffet dining car. Woman reading in MK1first class compartment. Travellers in MK1 compartment. Mechanical horse and driver petting dray horse. Horsebox being loaded with horse and foal. Horse being led into rail horse box. Horse tethered inside railway horse box. Interior of rail horse box. Horse tethered inside railway horse box. Horse being loaded into road horse box from rail horse box. Puppy in box awaiting transportation by rail. "Live Chicks" in boxes awaiting transportation by rail. Live calves bound up in sacks awaiting transportation by rail. Live chicks in boxes awaiting transportation. Homing pigeons being released from cages by trackside with freight (possibly pig Goats tethered inside wagon. BR porter leading goat from train onto platform. Frightened sheep in railway wagon. Images of horse, cow, sheep and pig with the number of hours that they are allow Man loading open wagons with sugar beet from truck. Sugar beet being loaded into open wagons mechanically. Men loading open wagons with sugar beet from truck. Sugar beet lineside storage yard with trucks and railway wagons. Sugar beet lineside storage yard with trucks and railway wagons. Showing rail cr Worker with hose washing sugar beet. Possibly washing it out of storage area. Washing sugar beet out of wagons with high powered water jets. Raw sugar being loaded into open wagons. Raw sugar being loaded into open wagons and being covered with sheets. Sheets being fastened over the tops of sugar wagons. Rake of covered wagons leaving factory. Rake of suger wagons hauled by 0-4-0 saddle tank. British Rail worker in mess room putting sugar in tea. Grain hoppers being loaded. Cars being loaded/unloaded from railway wagons to ship. Maintenance being carried out on wagon brakes with workman. NER 5 ton refrigerator van no. 430139. 3/4 view. Container Flat no. 165526 with LNER 'Door to Door' container. BR freight container being loaded onto wagon at port. BR 'Highly Refrigerated Container' on lorry being loaded with birdseye products. Flat wagon no. B749034 with two London and Burton beer tankers chained on. No wh Oversize load of three cantilever bridge sections. Oversized load of possible power station boiler. Train load of 45 wagons of agricultural elevators leaving Stamford, 1945. Timber planking loaded onto wagons at yard/port. Timber planking being loaded into open wagons at yard/port. Aggregates being tipped into hold of ship from wagon. Presflo cement wagon loading/unloading to Earles Cement road wagon. Possible transformer? being carried by outsize load wagon set. Train of iron ore tipplers at industrial site. Train of ICI tankers marked 'Heavy Organic'. Worker fitting vacuum brake pipes together. Sand and gravel being loaded into hoppers from overhead crane. Track recorder. July 1964. Laying out recording trolley on track recorder. July 1964. Track recorder with trolley on track. July 1964. Track recorder crew studying read out. July 1964. Portrait of track recorder and crew. July 1964. Axle box maintenance, with worker. Loosening bolts on axle box to allow for oil pad examination. Re oiling pad in axle box. Replacing axle box. Removing axle box to allow for oil pad examination. Coal being unloaded from 7 plank side door wagon into sacks on lorry. Cattle wagons being loaded from pens on platform. Cattle pens on platform with cattle wagons being loaded. 5 plank coal wagon being mechanically loaded. Coal wagons in siding at an iron and steel works. 22 ton Tube Batten wagon. Press Flo cement wagon unloading into Blue Circle truck. Large double bogie tank wagon. Speed Freight container, marked London to Manchester, on Conflat wagon. Open wagons being tippled at yard. Open wagons being tippled at yard. Close up of 'tower'. Aggregates being loaded into open wagons from grab at yard/port. Workman in yard shunting using capstan. Goods store with boxes of Kellogg's corn flakes. Scan for print order Scan for print order Scan for print order Scan for print order Scan for print order Scan for print order Scan for print order Scan for print order Lock maintenance on the Grand Union Canal Scan for print order Still from 'There Go the Boats' BTF Scan for print order Scan for print order Repairing a railway wagon at Earlestown works, 1953 Filming track maintenance team c.1950s Filming a map of Great Britain, about 1951 Queen Victoria and family departing to Scotland, 19th century. Railway passengers, 1950 Paddle Steamers next to a jetty Bootham Bar and York Minster SS Scillonian offloading passengers Penzance harbour Passengers at Kings Cross. 'Flying Scotsman' at King's Cross, 1963. School children awaiting the arrival of a train at Shenfield Station, Essex, 1955. BTF film still - 'Fully Fitted Freight' - 1957. BTF film still - "This Year London' - 1951. Film production No. 145 'Linkspan' - 1956. Driver of mechanical horse. APT prototype under construction. Interior of APT prototype under construction. APT prototype under construction. Driver's cab of APT prototype under construction. Advanced Passenger Train (Experimental) at St Pancras 28th Oct. 1975 Passengers inside APT. APT driver's seat. A family dining in a railway camping coach in Cheddar, Somerset in 1951. Crowds of shoppers outside John Lewis department store Colliery. Leicester to York trip. Lineside plant

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Flying Scotsman at King's Cross, 1963
Science Museum Group Collection
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Pontycysyllte acqueduct, about 1949
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Grand Union canal, 1950
Science Museum Group Collection
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Grand Union canal, 1950
Science Museum Group Collection
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Kennet and Avon Canal, 1950
Science Museum Group Collection
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Showroom in Hull, 1949
Science Museum Group Collection
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Showroom in Hull, 1949
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Film crew, 1949
Science Museum Group Collection
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Butter production, 1951
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Butter production, 1951
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Butter production, 1951
Science Museum Group Collection
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Factory worker, 1950
Science Museum Group Collection
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Film crew, 1950
Science Museum Group Collection
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Film crew, 1950
Science Museum Group Collection
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Track maintenance, 1950
Science Museum Group Collection
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Liner and tug at Southampton, 1950
Science Museum Group Collection
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New cars being transported by rail on conflat. Chiltern Green, June 1965.
Science Museum Group Collection
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Combined tamper/liner in action.
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Combined tamper/liner with crew.
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Train of tank wagons for transporting liquids
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British Railways 150-ton trolley wagon, about 1955
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Pre WW1 communters seated in multiple unit.
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Steam railcar.
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Five car, third rail, electric multiple unit passing signal box at Cromer Road.
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Woman in sleeping compartment being served tea by attendant.
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Woman eating bread roll in buffet dining car.
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Woman reading in MK1first class compartment.
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Travellers in MK1 compartment.
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Mechanical horse and driver petting dray horse.
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Horsebox being loaded with horse and foal.
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Horse being led into rail horse box.
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Horse tethered inside railway horse box.
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Interior of rail horse box.
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Horse tethered inside railway horse box.
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Horse being loaded into road horse box from rail horse box.
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Puppy in box awaiting transportation by rail.
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"Live Chicks" in boxes awaiting transportation by rail.
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Live calves bound up in sacks awaiting transportation by rail.
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Live chicks in boxes awaiting transportation.
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Homing pigeons being released from cages by trackside with freight (possibly pig
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Goats tethered inside wagon.
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BR porter leading goat from train onto platform.
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Frightened sheep in railway wagon.
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Images of horse, cow, sheep and pig with the number of hours that they are allow
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Man loading open wagons with sugar beet from truck.
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Sugar beet being loaded into open wagons mechanically.
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Men loading open wagons with sugar beet from truck.
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Sugar beet lineside storage yard with trucks and railway wagons.
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Sugar beet lineside storage yard with trucks and railway wagons. Showing rail cr
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Worker with hose washing sugar beet. Possibly washing it out of storage area.
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Washing sugar beet out of wagons with high powered water jets.
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Raw sugar being loaded into open wagons.
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Raw sugar being loaded into open wagons and being covered with sheets.
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Sheets being fastened over the tops of sugar wagons.
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Rake of covered wagons leaving factory.
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Rake of suger wagons hauled by 0-4-0 saddle tank.
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British Rail worker in mess room putting sugar in tea.
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Grain hoppers being loaded.
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Cars being loaded/unloaded from railway wagons to ship.
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Maintenance being carried out on wagon brakes with workman.
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NER 5 ton refrigerator van no. 430139. 3/4 view.
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Container Flat no. 165526 with LNER 'Door to Door' container.
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BR freight container being loaded onto wagon at port.
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BR 'Highly Refrigerated Container' on lorry being loaded with birdseye products.
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Flat wagon no. B749034 with two London and Burton beer tankers chained on. No wh
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Oversize load of three cantilever bridge sections.
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Oversized load of possible power station boiler.
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Train load of 45 wagons of agricultural elevators leaving Stamford, 1945.
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Timber planking loaded onto wagons at yard/port.
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Timber planking being loaded into open wagons at yard/port.
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Aggregates being tipped into hold of ship from wagon.
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Presflo cement wagon loading/unloading to Earles Cement road wagon.
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Possible transformer? being carried by outsize load wagon set.
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Train of iron ore tipplers at industrial site.
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Train of ICI tankers marked 'Heavy Organic'.
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Worker fitting vacuum brake pipes together.
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Sand and gravel being loaded into hoppers from overhead crane.
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Track recorder. July 1964.
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Laying out recording trolley on track recorder. July 1964.
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Track recorder with trolley on track. July 1964.
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Track recorder crew studying read out. July 1964.
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Portrait of track recorder and crew. July 1964.
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Axle box maintenance, with worker.
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Loosening bolts on axle box to allow for oil pad examination.
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Re oiling pad in axle box.
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Replacing axle box.
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Removing axle box to allow for oil pad examination.
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Coal being unloaded from 7 plank side door wagon into sacks on lorry.
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Cattle wagons being loaded from pens on platform.
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Cattle pens on platform with cattle wagons being loaded.
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5 plank coal wagon being mechanically loaded.
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Coal wagons in siding at an iron and steel works.
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22 ton Tube Batten wagon.
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Press Flo cement wagon unloading into Blue Circle truck.
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Large double bogie tank wagon.
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Speed Freight container, marked London to Manchester, on Conflat wagon.
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Open wagons being tippled at yard.
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Open wagons being tippled at yard. Close up of 'tower'.
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Aggregates being loaded into open wagons from grab at yard/port.
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Workman in yard shunting using capstan.
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Goods store with boxes of Kellogg's corn flakes.
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Lock maintenance on the Grand Union Canal

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Repairing a railway wagon at Earlestown works, 1953
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Filming track maintenance team c.1950s

Filming a map of Great Britain, about 1951
British Transport Films

Queen Victoria and family departing to Scotland, 19th century.

Railway passengers, 1950

Paddle Steamers next to a jetty

Bootham Bar and York Minster

SS Scillonian offloading passengers

Penzance harbour

Passengers at Kings Cross.

'Flying Scotsman' at King's Cross, 1963.
Science Museum Group Collection
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School children awaiting the arrival of a train at Shenfield Station, Essex, 1955.
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BTF film still - 'Fully Fitted Freight' - 1957.
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BTF film still - "This Year London' - 1951.
Science Museum Group Collection
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Film production No. 145 'Linkspan' - 1956.
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Driver of mechanical horse.

APT prototype under construction.

Interior of APT prototype under construction.

APT prototype under construction.

Driver's cab of APT prototype under construction.

Advanced Passenger Train (Experimental) at St Pancras 28th Oct. 1975

Passengers inside APT.

APT driver's seat.

A family dining in a railway camping coach in Cheddar, Somerset in 1951.

Crowds of shoppers outside John Lewis department store

Colliery. Leicester to York trip. Lineside plant

Photographs, a collection of approximately 2,000 film and glass negatives; 5131 card-mounted silver prints; approximately 10,000 monochrome lantern slides and colour transparencies. The collection represents stills and 116 filmstrips taken during production of British Transport Films (BTF) films, covering British transport, travelogues and training, 1950-1986. Also includes notes and manuscript score for Intercity 1250. Full schedule compiled.

The films themselves reside with the British Film Institute but the National Railway Museum holds the stills archive, which is comprised of negatives, filmstrips, reference prints, and colour transparencies.

The success of the LMS and Southern Railway's publicity film units inspired the British Transport Commission to found a film unit which would promote the newly nationalised transport concerns. Established in 1949, the British Transport Films unit was to play a leading role in the documentary film movement, at one time being the most active documentary film unit in Britain.

The majority of the BTF's output was produced for British Railways but the archive is significant not just as a history of the railways, but as a study of daily life in mid-twentieth century Britain.

Details

Category:
Photographic Collections (Railway)
Object Number:
1996-7038
type:
photographs
credit:
British Railways Board