Barry Coward has compiled some glorious BTF out-takes of Kings Cross for our enjoyment.


"Kings Cross has changed over the past year, and when the frontage is finally clear will look even more magnificent, though I suspect Network Rail will soon be tempted to clutter the area will retail units. I have just complied a memory of how it was in my childhood days."

Website updated - www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk

Terrestrial TV transmission dates updated with a few corrections and several extra dates of Channel 4 broadcasts, courtesy of Robin Carmody.

DVD pages updated to include BTF Collections 10 & 11 plus extracts from earlier BFI press releases.

The next British Transport Film Collection DVD from the BFI - Volume 11: Experiment under London - is due for release on the 17th of June 2013. More details as we learn of them.

Engines Must Not Enter the Potato Siding

I'm delighted to pass on the news that the legendary 1969 Tuesday Documentary made by the BBC is now available on BBC iPlayer as an official programme and the poor quality timecoded rip off 'leaked' on to Ebay is now obsolete (though grateful thanks to whoever it was that put it up there at the time!)

Engines Must Not Enter the Potato Siding (BBC - 1969)

The BFI have released an official copy of Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (1955) to Youtube.

Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (1955)

London on the Move DVD

An interesting account of how the recent DVD release from the BFI was put together.

Automatic Fare Collection and You (1969)

To help market the launch of the latest BFI DVD compilation - London on the Move, the BFI have posted Automatic Fare Collection and You (1969) on YouTube....