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:
1200 G.E.C. traction motors ordered by London Transport
A May 1959 advert from The General Electric Company Limited (GEC) noting their self-ventilating axle-hung traction motors were being used on new vehicles for the Piccadilly and Metropolitan Lines.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: London Underground ; Supplier: GEC ; Component: Traction Motors
More Samples:
The source of their strength is Pressed Steel
Co-operating in the Crewe-Manchester Electrification
PG Railway Electrification
Macbeth Spike Anchors
Cambrian rolling stock
The Flying Scotsman
In the long period of service to overseas railways
Fast Mover