Online Transport Archive

Online Transport Archive (OTA) was established in 2000 to administer a growing collection of cine films, slides, negatives, prints and commercial postcards relating to all forms of transport, street scenes and associated social activity. It is the aim of the archive that the collections are accessible to publishers, authors, researchers and film producers to share the Archive’s contents with the public at large. Charitable status was achieved in January 2004.
The collection now stands at over 2,000,000 still images and over 4000 hours of film footage, and is constantly growing as more and more choose to lodge their collections with us for safekeeping in perpetuity. We now have one of the finest collections of transport images in Britain, with extensive collections of maritime, canal, aviation, heavy and light rail and road-based subjects, with particular strengths in the canal, bus, trolleybus, tram and railway areas.