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:
Ventilation By Airvacs
A half page Greenwood's and Airvac Ventilating Company Limited advert from September 1961 for their Airvac ventilators. These were fitted to some DMU types such as those built by Met-Camm and BRC&W, with Class 101 vehicle E50147 pictured.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 101 ; Supplier: Greenwoods ; Component: Ventilators
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