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:
35 four-car trains for 25kV 50 cycle AC Electrification
A Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Limited advert from February 1961. It notes their electro-pneumatic brakes were being fitted to the EMUs being built at Wolverton for Manchester-Crewe and Liverpool-Crewe services.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: EMU ; Supplier: Westinghouse ; Component: Brakes
More Samples:
Metro Cammell Builders of Lightweight Coaches
Pirelli-General Cables
Greer-Mercier Accumulators: New Projects
Rolled Steel Wheels Tyres Forged Axles and Complete Pairs
Double-cone couplings
We Congratulate
Wickham Multiple Unit Diesel Trains and Lightweight Railbuses
"Deltic"