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:
Southern Electrics for the Kent Coast
A June 1959 advert from British Railways noting that the Kent Coast electrics would begin on the 15th of that month, the first stage of the Southern Region's Modernisation plan.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: EMU ; Supplier: British Railways
More Samples:
Sulzer: Western Region
The English Electric 'Deltic' Diesel-Electric Locomotive
where space is at a premium...
Graviner automatic fire protection for British Railways Diesel Railcars
Beclatite for Railway Rolling Stock
The first of the new Brush 1250hp diesel electric locomotives
Fast Mover
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