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:
Diesel railcars by Gloucester
A Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited advert from August 1958 featuring the single car DMU vehicles they built to a Derby design for Tyseley, Reading and Southall depots.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 122 ; Builder: Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon
More Samples:
GEC 25kV Locomotives
Heat Exchange Equipment for Rail Traction
The English Electric 'Deltic' Diesel-Electric Locomotive
In Service on British Railways
Designers and Builders of Railway Rolling Stock for 100 Years
NULAC Enamels and Varnish
For 50 years Cambrian have been building wagons
Since 1933 over 1,000 power equipments have been ordered