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:
D6100 gets off to a good start...
A June 1961 advert from The D.P. Battery Company Limited noting their D.P. Kathanode Batteries were fitted to the Class 21 diesel-electric locomotives for the Scottish Region.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 21 ; Supplier: DP Battery Company ; Component: Batteries
More Samples:
Sentinel chose Laycock-Knorr
At Home and Overseas Engine Coolers are our Business
Chapmans Adjustable Seats are fitted to many loco's
The Enterprise series of Diesel Hydraulic Locomotives
On the right lines...
Signalling Liverpool St. - Shenfield Electrification
Rolling Stock for the World by Gloucester
Wickham Multiple Unit Diesel Trains and Lightweight Railbuses