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:
GEC Supplies 85 More Power Equipments for Diesel Shunters
An August 1958 General Electric Company (GEC) advert. It notes that they had supplied 85 more sets of power equipment (such as traction motors) for 350hp diesel electric shunters being built by British Railways. Illustrated is locomotive 13139, which would later become TOPS class 10.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 10 ; Supplier: GEC ; Component: Traction Motors
More Samples:
Neutral Track and Line Relays
This Concentrated Area of Over 1000 Routes
AEI Diesel Electric Locomotives
Fowler diesel power in the paper industry
Diesel-electric Traction on Railways
The passport to a safe journey
Mills Rail Clips for heavy duty track
Cambrian Rolling Stock for 50 Years