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:

for Rolling Stock of all types

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A Cravens Limited advert from August 1958 showing some for products built for export: lightweight coaches for the Peruvian Corporation Limited; air conditioned coaches for the Iraqi State Railway; and a 3rd class coach for the Gold Coast Railway.

This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Foreign ; Builder: Cravens

More Samples:

BICC Railway Signalling Control Cable

Railway Electrification Schemes Supplied

Road and Rail

Modernisation in Practice: English Electric 3,300hp Deltic

GEC Supply First of Ten

Braking Power by Air

300,000 for a start

Silentbloc Flexible Couplings