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:
Railway Wagons by Butterley
There are six photographs of different wagons built for British Railways by the Ripley Derbyshire firm The Butterley Company Limited. They included 21-ton hopper coal wagons, 16-ton mineral wagons and 20-ton bogie ballast and sleeper wagons.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Wagons ; Builder: Butterley Company
More Samples:
Beclawat Windows for Inter-City DMUs
Wickham Multiple-unit Diesel Trains for British Railways
This Concentrated Area of Over 1000 Routes
1200 G.E.C. traction motors ordered by London Transport
Steel, Peech & Tozer Railway Materials
2500 B.U.T. Traction Diesels Now Operating Throughout the World
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