This website documents some of the wonderful trade advertisements from the 1950s and 1960s when the British railway stock businesses were busy building for the modernisation schemes. 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.
A new advert will be added every day.
Latest Addition:
Rugged Robust Reliable
An S Smiths & Sons Limited advert from July 1961 for their Smiths locomotive instruments.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 41 ; Supplier: Smiths ; Component: Instruments
Other recent additions:
Is it 40 degrees?
700 diesel railcars
British Railways use A-MP solderless wiring devices
Electric Rolling Stock Light Alloy Construction
Now Mexico
High-speed locomotives on British Rail roll on Timken Bearings
Sulzer Engines
Bigger and even Better!