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:
Electro Pneumatic Brakes by Westinghouse
A January 1957 advert from Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company Limtied. It shows two types of EMUs fitted with their brake gear - an Eastleigh built 4-car for London Bridge - Littlehampton services and a Met-Camm/BRC&W 3-car for use between Liverpool and New Brighton.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: EMU ; Supplier: Westinghouse ; Component: Brakes
More Samples:
Cambrian Rolling Stock of all Descriptions
In Scandanavia they say
Power Transmission for the new BR diesels
Sulzer 6LDA28
Superior Railcar Components
226 Brush Locomotives for British Railways
They are Fitted with Metcalfe-Oerlikon Air and Vacuum Brake Equipment
Fast Freight