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:
Latest Type 4 British Railways Locomotive built by Brush
A Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Limited advert from March 1963 noting these locos were fitted with their vacuum controlled straight air brake.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 47 ; Supplier: Westinghouse ; Component: Brakes
More Samples:
Produced by ICI Speeded by British Railways
For Strength, Specify Pressed Steel
Beclawat Hurricane Unit Windows
Trico Heavy Duty Equipment
This thing called know-how
On The Right Lines
Lightweight Coaches for Peru
Lamigraph Laminated Plastic Signs