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BBFC RatingBritain on Film: Railways

CertificateU
Year1898-1970
GenreDocumentary
Director(s)Various
CountryUK
Running Time1HR 23MINS
SeasonMain Programme

A major new collection of rare archive films charting the history of the UK's railways and bringing home the romance and heady freedoms offered by train travel as it expanded across the country in the early 20th century.

Travel back to the golden age of the railways, when trains ran on time and came complete with fluffed pillows, silverware and three course meals.

Britain on Film: Railways charts the history of the UK’s railways in a major new collection of rare archive films, from 1898 to the final steam train of 1968. Return to the romance and glamour of early train travel and be swept away by the freedom of travelling through the past and breadth of the UK.

Sourced from the BFI National Archive and newly digitised with a newly commissioned soundtrack, Britain on Film: Railways revels in nostalgia for the lost glories of train travel, while documenting the rapidly changing social, economic and political climate of the UK from the tracks.

Please note: the programme contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect audience members with photosensitive epilepsy.


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