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:
Greater Strength Steel Wagons Longer Service
A double page Pressed Steel Company advert from 1955. The image shows a row of new 16-ton mineral wagons of which the company was building over 11,000 of for British Railways every year.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Wagons ; Builder: Pressed Steel
More Samples:
Smiths To be sure
Better bearings in better locomotives
Greater Strength Steel Wagons
Delivered Before Time... Tomorrow's Locomotives Today
Laycock Plastics For the Railway Industry
The Royal Scot
Designers and Builders of Railway Rolling Stock for 100 Years
Relay Interlocking Control Systems