Added to News page - A Day in the Life: Four Portraits of Post-War Britain by John Krish

The BFI have announced 'A Day in the Life: Four Portraits of Post-War Britain by John Krish' will be showing in selected UK cinemas from 12th November 2010. The show in includes the seminal BTF production "The Elephant Will Never Forget".

Click for details on the BFI website.

A key figure in post-war documentary, John Krish made films with a clarity of purpose and an understated, unsentimental, profoundly engaged humanism. This selection of four of his finest works deal with a Britain in transition:
The Elephant Will Never Forget (1953, 10min);
They Took Us to the Sea (1961, 26min)
Our School (1962, 28min);
I Think They Call Him John (1964, 28min).

Poignant, to the point and still relevant.

Daily Telegraph Review

The Independent Review

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The Arts Desk Review

The Elephant Will Never Forget (1952)

Added link to John Krish Interview about the filming of this seminal title:-

Added More Rob Foxon Film Show Dates

Dates For Your Diary...

Throughout the year, there will be several film shows and events organised by cinema & film dealers, film archivists, local & regional theatres, local authorities, clubs & societies. Whilst as many BTF screenings and similar events as possible will be publicised on these pages, there may be certain relevant events that we do not get to learn of. Please contact the webmaster - info (at) britishtransportfilms.co.uk - if you are able to provide details of any events not listed below.
Please note that these dates are printed in good faith and we cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies, alterations or cancellations. Please contact the telephone numbers given for confirmation, especially if you are travelling any distance.

2010

Wednesday 1st September - 7.45pm : Railways Remembered introduced by Rob Foxon at Harborough Railway Association, Conservative Club, Fairfield Road, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 9QQ.
Featuring footage from Rob's amazing collection of archive railway film.
Details : 01858 446300

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Wednesday 13th October - 7.30pm : Railways Remembered introduced by Rob Foxon at The Benn Hall, Newbold Road, Rugby, Warkwickshire, CV21 2LN.
New Programme - featuring footage from Rob's amazing collection of archive railway film.
Details : 0116 289 0531

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Thursday 14th October - 7.30pm : Railways Remembered introduced by Rob Foxon at Palace Theatre, Appletongate, Newark, Nottinghamshire. NG24 1JY.
British Railways - The 1930s - featuring footage from Rob's amazing collection of archive railway film.
Box Office : 01636 655755

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Thursday 21st October - 7.30pm : Railways Remembered introduced by Rob Foxon at Rolls Royce Pavilion, Moor Lane, Derby, DE24 9HY.
New Programme - featuring footage from Rob's amazing collection of archive railway film.
Details : 0116 289 0531

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Monday 25th October - 7.30pm : Railways Remembered introduced by Rob Foxon at Corn Market Hall, London Road, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN15 7QA.
New Programme - featuring footage from Rob's amazing collection of archive railway film.
Details : 0116 289 0531

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Monday 8th November - 7.30pm : Railways Remembered introduced by Rob Foxon at The Rothley Centre, Mountsorrel Lane, Rothley, Leicestershire, LE7 7PR.
New Programme - featuring footage from Rob's amazing collection of archive railway film.
Details : 0116 289 0531

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Thursday 11th November - 7.30pm : Railways Remembered introduced by Rob Foxon at The Memorial Hall, Grimsby Road, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, DN35 8AH.
Along LNER Lines - featuring footage from Rob's amazing collection of archive railway film.
Details : 0116 289 0531

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Monday 15th November - 7.30pm : Railways Remembered introduced by Rob Foxon at Peak Railway Association, Library Theatre, Tudor Square, Sheffield, S1 1XZ.
New Programme - featuring footage from Rob's amazing collection of archive railway film.
Details : 0114 268 0948

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Thursday 2nd December - 7.30pm : Railways Remembered introduced by Rob Foxon at Palace Theatre, Appletongate, Newark, Nottinghamshire. NG24 1JY.
Special Christmas Programme - featuring footage from Rob's amazing collection of archive railway film.
Box Office : 01636 655755

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Tuesday 14th December - 7.30pm : Railways Remembered introduced by Rob Foxon at Friends of the NRM, National Railway Museum, Leeman Road, York, YO26 4XJ.
Special Programme - featuring footage from Rob's amazing collection of archive railway film.
Details (after 1st November) : 01904 744450 (Advance Booking Essential).

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Wednesday 29th December - 7.30pm : Railways Remembered introduced by Rob Foxon at Peak Railway Association, Library Theatre, Tudor Square, Sheffield, S1 1XZ.
Special End of Year Programme - featuring footage from Rob's amazing collection of archive railway film.
Details : 0114 268 0948

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Thursday 30th December - 7.30pm : Railways Remembered introduced by Rob Foxon at The Rothley Centre, Mountsorrel Lane, Rothley, Leicestershire, LE7 7PR.
Special End of Year Programme - featuring footage from Rob's amazing collection of archive railway film.
Details : 0116 289 0531

Freightliner In Action (1969)

7 minutes - Colour
A short film, made for the British Institute of Management conference, which graphically illustrates the progressive development of depots and handling equipment to process the ever increasing Freightliner traffic. Scenes at Straford terminal and at Parkeston Quay, where Britain's first container ships, built for British Rail, cover the sea passage between Harwich, Zeebrugge and Rotterdam.

Scottish Highlands (1953)

Noted on the film list that Scottish Highlands enjoyed a (very brief) public video release - it was included in Along Nostalgic Lines Vol. 3 (produced by John Cocking Video / Salford Films).


Along Nostagic Lines are the rarest of all public video releases of BTF films. Five volumes were produced some time in the early 1990s but they were quickly withdrawn from sale with copyright / royalty issues with the British Railways Board suggested as the likely reason. The quality of the videos was poor due to the well worn and often faded film prints used and cheaply photocopied insert sleeves.

Hostellers (1965)

Revised the details for the BBC4 documentary on the Youth Hostelling Association:


BBC4's 'Nation on Film' also showed another hour long documentary called 'Youth Hostelling: The First 100 Years' telling the story of youth hostelling, which was founded in 1909 in Germany and was established in Britain in 1930, through fascinating archive films discovered in a storeroom at the Youth Hostel Association's headquarters in Derbyshire. The BTF production of 1965 - Hostellers - is featured and shows Ken Moody - the original 'star' of the film re-uniting with former BTF assistant editor and director of the film - Gloria Sachs - at the site on the canal at Selby in Yorkshire where the Sabrina was moored - the first floating Youth Hostel Hostel in Britain.

Online Ordering

Added direct links to purchase DVDs from Amazon. Hopefully this will add a few pennies to offset the cost of running the website and avoid emails from visitors asking where they can buy the discs from!