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:
Lightweight Coaches for Peru
An October 1961 advert from Cravens Limited of Sheffield - "Architects for passenger & freight stock". It featured lightweight (18 1/2ton tare) steel coaches recently delivered to the Central and Southern Railways of Peru, illustrated is a 1st class kitchen buffet which had seating for 26 passengers.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Foreign ; Builder: Cravens
More Samples:
Designing And Making Traction Equipment
Double Line Block Instrument
3,600hp electric locomotives for India
600 Diesel Railcars Have Now Been Supplied by Metro-Cammell
400 Diesel Railcars Already Supplied for British Railways Modernisation Plan
Beclawat Weatherproof Windows
Track Equipment by MV-GRS
Buoyant Lace Web Seating in Derby Built Railcars