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:
Aluminium Sheathed Telecommunication Cables
A Standard Telephones and Cables Limited advert from April 1961 noting their involvement with the telecommunications cables on the London - Tilbury - Southend route.
This advert appears in the following categories: Supplier: STC ; Component: Communication Signalling
More Samples:
Railway Materials
Gloucester Builds...
Condor Express Freight Services run on SKF
Economy along these lines
Walker Diesel Mechanical Railcars
Air treated for Comfort
Greer-Mercier Accumulators: New Projects
Railway Electrification