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:
Metcalfe's Air Brake Equipment for Carriages and Wagons
A Davies and Metcalfe Limited advert from October 1961 promoting their range of Oerlikon Patent Design brake valves and cylinders.
This advert appears in the following categories: Supplier: Davies & Metcalfe ; Component: Brakes
More Samples:
Crompton Parkinson Electrics
You Get More Life From NIFE
The Wickham No.40 Senior Official's Car
British Railways Electrification service and safety
The Season's Greetings to all our Railway Friends
Main-Line Electrification
The Pioneers of Hydraulic Railway Buffers
State Coach designed for the Maharajah of India