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:
where space is at a premium...
A Vokes Limited advert from December 1958 noting their 'Top Servicing' lubricating oil filters were chosen by Brush Traction Limited for twenty Type 2 locos built by them for British Railways.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 30/31 ; Supplier: Vokes ; Component: Filters
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