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:
BTC 3 car Diesel Trains by Gloucester
An October 1959 advert from Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Limited noting the DMUs with buffets they had built for the Western Region.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 119 ; Builder: Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon
More Samples:
'Kynal' for Diesel Rail Cars
Still In The Lead
Paxman 'Ventura'
Paper Element Conversion Packs for CAV Fuel Filters
British Railways Diesel Electric Pullman Trains
Greetings to the Railways of the World
Where Reliability Counts
On the 'Yorkshire Engine'