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:
Type 1 1000hp Mixed-Traffic Diesel Locomotives
A British Timken Limited advert from September 1958 featuring a Leslie Carr painting of a Class 20 hauling vans.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 20 ; Supplier: Timken
More Samples:
Standardize on complete Rolls-Royce Diesel-Hydraulic Equipment
Diesels Need 'Alfloc'
Plug-in Relays for the Modern Signalling Installation
Chapmans Drivers Seat On Electro-Diesel Loco's
Beclawat Windows for Canada
Safety First
A new look for Britain's Railways
Better bearings in better locomotives