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:
Nigerian Railways 1st Class Sleeper Car
A half page Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited advert from April 1959 showing coaches there were building for overseas that included a shower compartment.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Foreign ; Builder: Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon
More Samples:
Rolls-Royce Oil Engines for Railcar Traction Applications
'Cambrian' Rolling Stock
Tyer Diagram Lamp Unit
So much depends on reliable fastenings
North British Locomotives
British Railways standardise on SKF Equipped B4 Bogie
Speed and Safety in Modern Railway Operation
Domino Panels a revolutionary Control Device