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:
ubiquitous... Hoffman Parallel Roller Bearing Axleboxes
An April 1961 advert from The Hoffman Manufacturing Company Limited. It showed some of the vehicles fitted with their axleboxes: a Brush Type 2; a 4-car EMU; a Piccadilly line underground train; and a wagon.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 30/31 London Underground Wagons EMU ; Supplier: Hoffmann ; Component: Axleboxes
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