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:
British Railways use A-MP solderless wiring devices
A December 1958 advert from Aircraft-Marine Products (Gt. Britian) Limited for their crimps and crimping tools. One of the photographs shows the electrical junction box in the cab of a Swindon Cross-Country DMU.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 120 ; Supplier: A-MP ; Component: Electrical Equipment
More Samples:
For the Euston-Watford Line
1200 G.E.C. traction motors ordered by London Transport
Fast Mover
Locomotives up to 3,300 H.P.
Rail for Mersey Docks
GEC and the Railways
Out-of-date Before Its First Journey?
The Largest Substation on London Transport Railways