Signal Box Archive

Cavalcade of San Francisco

This Traveltalk series short celebrates San Francisco, past and present.

1940

Elizabethan Express

Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along the

1954

Train Time

A short documentary about the transportation of goods and livestock by train around the UK.

1952

3rd Ave. El

Impressionistic picture of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway in Manhattan, New York City, before it was demolished. Preserved by the Academy Film Arc

1955

Trains: Two Centuries of Innovation

Nearly 200 years ago, the train revolutionized our lives. It redrew the maps of states and nations, and changed concepts of distance and time like no

2017

Gare du Nord : La Plus Grande Gare d'Europe

2018

How to Fix a Railway

A multibillion-pound investment is underway to make our railways bigger, better and faster. Over three years, we go behind the scenes with Wales’s new

2023

The Seattle-Tacoma Interurban Railway

This rich, historical documentary captures the story of the high-speed, electric transit system that sparked the growth and development of Puget Sound

1996

TGV, la réussite française

2017

Quintinshill: Britain's Deadliest Rail Disaster

Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago on 22 May 1915, in which three trains collided at

2015

1917, The Train from Hell

1917, The Train from Hell is an historical documentary about a train accident during WW1.

2019

Tshiuetin

Take a breathtaking train a ride through Nothern Quebec and Labrador on Canada’s first First Nations-owned railway. Come for the celebration of the po

2016

Hitler's Steel Beast

Trace the history of Hitler's armored private train, a 15-car mobile headquarters boasting state-of-the-art communications and anti-aircraft cannons.

2017

Secrets of the Dead: Death on the Railroad

2013

Berliner Stadtbahnbilder

Documentation on the Berlin S-Bahn, which threatened to fall into oblivion as a result of the division of the city.

1982

London's Railways in the 1960s

The British Railways modernisation programme of the 1960s radically changed the rail network, and the British Transport Films unit and the TV news wer

2010

Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway

A hand-colored ride along the Bangor-Conwy-Colwyn Bay railroad filmed from an express train from the London and North Western Railway; Stations, vista

1898

OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN

For the past ten years, Jürgen Henn has filmed over-height trucks crashing into the 11foot8 train bridge affectionately nicknamed the "Can Opener." In

2018

The Outer Circle: Melbourne's Forgotten Railway

In the 1870s Victorian politicians debated the virtues of constructing a 20km-long railway through Melbourne's east, simply to circumvent a privately-

2014

Under Night Streets

After the last train at night and before the first in the morning, 800 people are hard at work behind the scenes making London's Underground fit to tr

1958