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:
Quality in quantity
A Sulzer Bros London Limited advert from 1964 noting that 342 Sulzer engined D1500 locomotives were in service with British Railways, powered by their 12LDA28C engines, the most powerful locomotive in quantity production at the time.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 47 ; Supplier: Sulzer ; Component: Diesel Engines (Power Unit)
More Samples:
Quality and Reliability in Windows and Sliding Door Gear
Designing And Making Traction Equipment
State Coach designed for the Maharajah of India
Railway Sidings by Wards
Introducing the Hunslet Six Foot and Shoulder Ballast Cleaning Machine
Diesel-Electric and Gas Turbine Locomotives
Traction Motor Ventilating Bellows
Profiling Wheel Lathes