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:
This is our Centenary Year
A Charles Roberts & Company Limited advert from August 1956. Pictured are three types of tank wagons.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Wagons ; Builder: Charles Roberts
More Samples:
SKF equipped Electro-Diesels
On the Liverpool St.,-Kings Lynn run...
Complete Locomotives from ONE Organisation
Metro Cammell Builders of Lightweight Coaches
Auxiliary Power by Rolls-Royce Diesels
"The Train Now Arriving At Platform 8...
Dependable Hydraulic Buffers Pioneered by Oleo
For Strength, Specify Pressed Steel