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:

Role of the Railcar

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A Self-Changing Gears Limited advert from 1955 promoting a promotional booklet about how their Wilson gearboxes could be applied to railcars.

This advert appears in the following categories: Supplier: Self Changing Gears ; Component: Gearboxes

More Samples:

SKF on Scottish Region

for every type of DIESEL RAIL TRACTION

Graviner automatic fire protection for British Railways Diesel Railcars

M.O.T. 16 ton wagon

In the USA they say

Look to Your Overheads

Power Transmission for the new BR diesels

Railway Wagons by Butterley