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:

The Silent Sentinel

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A Siemens and General Electric Railway Signal Company Limited (SGE) advert from December 1958 for their signals and route indicators.

This advert appears in the following categories: Supplier: SGE Signals ; Component: Signalling

More Samples:

In India

Protecting the Gears

This Concentrated Area of Over 1000 Routes

for every type of locomotive for ALL operating conditions

Two Steps Forward and Reverse

New diesel cars for Australia

Baker Bessemer Tyres Axles Solid Wheels

A Big Job Complete