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:
For L.T.E. Piccadilly Line
A Hoffman Manufacturing Company advert from January 1958 for their parallel roller bearing axleboxes which were used on all three of the prototype Piccadilly Line trains cushioned in Metalastik mountings. The main image shows the Metropolitan-Cammell prototype, the other two were built by GRC&W and BRC&W. The bogies on each also had the traction motors mounted on Hoffmann Roller Bearing Suspension Units.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: London Underground ; Supplier: Hoffmann ; Component: Axleboxes
More Samples:
Out-of-date Before Its First Journey?
70 GEC Equipments ordered by British Railways
Sulzer: Eastern Region
AEI Traction
Trouble starts with Condensation
It's 3 to 1 on the Scammell Scarab Mechanical Horse
Across the width of Britain
So much depends on reliable fastenings