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:
Protecting the Gears
A June 1951 advert from the Regent Oil Company for their Caltex Crater Compounds. This lubricant was used on the traction gears of the North Tyneside electric stock, one of which is pictured at Monkseaton.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: EMU ; Supplier: Regent Oil ; Component: Misc Parts
More Samples:
Exhausters by the thousand
Simplicity and Comfort
270 Track Miles of British Railways to be Electrified
New diesel cars for Australia
Planet Diesel Shunters in Nigeria
For 50 years Cambrian have been building wagons
Quality and Reliability in Windows and Sliding Door Gear
Diesels at Home and Overseas