Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948, the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit. Launched on 1st May, 1949, and led for 25 years by Edgar Anstey OBE - a founding father of the British documentary movement - it became one of the largest industrial film units in Britain.
This disc includes the following episodes:
- Blue Pullman (1960)
- Elizabethan Express(1954)
- Train Time (1952)
- Rail 150 (1975)
- The Diesel Train Driver (1959)
- On Track for the Eighties (1980)
- Cybernetica (1972)
Disc 2:
This disc includes the following episodes:
- Under the River (1959)
- Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (1955)
- This Year - London (1951)
- This is York (1953)
- The Great Highway (1966)
- A Day of One's Own (1956)
- John Betjeman goes by Train (1962)
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