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:
Napier Turbo-blowers boost power of British Railways first main line diesel-hydraulic locomotive
The work Napier makes me immediately think of Deltics yet the products of D. Napier & Sons Limited were fitted in other locomotive types. In this case the MS200 exhaust-driven turbo-blowers were used in the D600 diesel hydraulics to supercharge the two NBL/MAN 1000hp power units. The two illustrations show a power unit with turbo fitted and an unnumbered loco hauling some coaches. The turbos were available in seven sizes and they claim that they could increase the power of 4-stroke engines by 100% and 2-strokes by over 30%.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 41 ; Supplier: Napier ; Component: Turbos
More Samples:
Motive Power for the Railways of the World
Railway electrification by the BICC Group
Buoyant Lace Web Seating for Maximum Comfort
Triangle Triumph
Diesel locomotives... for British Railways
Over 1800 Diesel Main Line Locomotives
British United Traction in New Zealand
Trico Heavy Duty Windscreen Wiper Equipment