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:
Westinghouse Pneumatic Control for Railcars
A Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Limited advert from February 1959 noting the control equipment they had supplied for to British Railways for their Derby Built railcars. Illustrated is the unique E56000 and E50000.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: 50000/56000 ; Supplier: Westinghouse ; Component: Control Equipment
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