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:

700 diesel railcars

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A September 1959 advert from Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Company Limited noting the quantity of DMU vehicles they had supplied to the British Railways Modernisation Plan.

This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Met-Camm Lightweight ; Builder: Metro-Cammell

More Samples:

Diesel locomotives... for British Railways

18100

Here There and Everywhere

Centralised Traffic Control

Maximum Shock Absorption

The most Modern Train in the World

Beclawat Windows for B.R. Railbuses

Electrification and Bullers go together...