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:
D1500 Gets Off to a Good Start
A D.P. Battery Company Limited advert from March 1963 featuring the first 2,750hp Brush Type 4 - D1500. These locomotives were fitted with the company's 169Ah D.P. Kathanobe battery comprised of 48 cells.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 47 ; Supplier: DP Battery Company ; Component: Batteries
More Samples:
Precision first and last Production vast and fast
Revolution on the Railway
Look to Your Overheads
Fowler diesel power in the paper industry
Bridges by Butterley
Track Equipment by MV-GRS
A range of Hydraulic Torque Converters
3 repeat orders