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:
AEI Diesel Electric Locomotives
These Type 1 800hp locomotives - later becoming Class 15s - are better known as BTH (British Thomson-Houston) locos rather than AEI (Associated Electrical Industries). In 1928 BTH had amalgamated with Metropolitan-Vickers to form AEI, but continued to trade under the two known brands until 1960. The locos had begun to be delivered in 1957 under BTH, the 44 vehicles comprised four different orders the last of which was under AEI in 1961. The advert dates from February 1962, the photos show two of the locos on a goods train with D8202 closest. It notes that there are other orders for Type 2 diesel electrics and 25kV electric locos.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 15 ; Builder: Associated Electrical Industries
More Samples:
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Complete Locomotives from ONE Organisation
35 four-car trains for 25kV 50 cycle AC Electrification
Special 1st Class Saloon Car
GEC Supply First of Ten
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