Railway Adverts from the Modernisation Era

This website features over 1,000 trade advertisements from the 1950s and 1960s when the British railway stock businesses were busy building for the modernisation schemes.

There are adverts from rolling stock builders, and from suppliers of components used to build the vehicles. There are also adverts from other developments such as signalling, permanent way and electrification.

Most adverts were aimed at attracting more orders at home and abroad — but many also just seemed to be just a proud statement of what some firms had achieved!

Featured Advert:

National NM Range of Horizontal and Vertical Diesel Engines

Advert Titled National NM Range of Horizontal and Vertical Diesel Engines

This April 1959 advert from The National Gas and Oil Engine Company Limited (part of the Hawker Siddeley Group) of Ashton-under-Lyne promotes thier diesel engines for railcars and shunters. The photographs show horizontal and vertical engines, while the line drawings show a Met-Camm DMU and a 0-4-0 shunter. No first generation DMUs would be fitted with these engines.

This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 101 ; Supplier: National Gas and Oil Engine Company ; Component: Diesel Engines (Power Unit)

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