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:
Railway Rolling Stock Equipment by Clyde Rubber
This June 1962 half page advert from The Clyde Rubber Works Company shows which of the Renfrew company's products were used in a Mark I BG (M80855 illustrated): buffer and drawbar rubbers; carriage door stops; window antirattlers and sash pads; and steam heating pipe.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Coaches ; Supplier: Clyde Rubber ; Component: Rubber
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New! For Railway Signalling
Looking Ahead Through Beclawat Windows
Experience Counts! Salt Wagon
Only the Best is Good Enough for the Toronto Subway Cars
Barnes - Another Westinghouse Installation
Wickham Cars, Designed and Built by Specialists
It's 3 to 1 on the Scammell Scarab Mechanical Horse
Vacuum Brakes for Railways at Home and Overseas