Railways in Film

Apart from the many amateur and professional clips of railway subjects on YouTube such as the British Transport Commission Film 'This is York'' and 'Paddington Station 1939'  from the film 'The Last Journey'. The BBC has an 'on line ' archive as part of its 'Nation on Film' site here.

John Huntley wrote what was the definitive book on railways in the movies with 'Railways In The Cinema' published in 1969 and updated in 1993 as 'Railways on the Screen' . John who who died in 2003 compiled a number of video anthologies of railways in the cinema including newsreels and some are still available as DVDs from Amazon and others including the 'Steam on 35mm' series, 'Trains From The Arc' and 'Classic Railway Newseeels' all by Video 125.

John Huntley's obituary from The Guardian can be found here.
Many of the films featured in Railways in the Cinema can be rented from LoveFilm.com