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:
Alsthom suspensions on BR types 'A' & 'B' a.c. locomotives
A Silentbloc Limited advert from May 1960 noting their products used in the electric locos being supplied to British Railways by Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) - the AL1/Class 81s.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 81 ; Supplier: Silentbloc ; Component: Suspension
More Samples:
Traditional Pullman Luxury by Metro-Cammell
Sulzer Diesel Engines for Southern Region
Builders of Rolling Stock
Vokes 3-ply Viscous Air Filters
High speed inter-city diesel-electric trains
21 ton hoppered coal wagon by Butterley
From One Cylinder To Another
The FIRST fully AUTOMATIC level crossing barriers