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:
NBL/MAN Diesel Engines power British Railways Pullman Train Sets
A North British Locomotive Company Limited advert from November 1960 noting they supplied the power units for the Blue Pullmans.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Blue Pullman ; Builder: North British ; Component: Diesel Engines (Power Unit)
More Samples:
Gloucester Builds For The World
Sulzer Diesel Engines for Southern Region
Cushymounts
Essentials for Track Maintenance
Co-operating in the Crewe-Manchester Electrification
Formica for restaurant cars of British Railways
M.O.T. 16 ton wagon
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