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:
AEI Traction
An Associated Electrical Industries Limited advert from November 1961 noting the thirty-five 25kV AC electric locomotives and forty-five sets of electrical equipment ordered from them. The image shows the first of these locos (the AL1/Class 81s) E3001.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 81 ; Builder: Associated Electrical Industries
More Samples:
Metcalfe's Air Brake Equipment for Locomotives
British Railways Use Coles
Flexitor Rubber Springs
The Right Bearing
Bridges by Butterley
Co-operating in the Crewe-Manchester Electrification
Vacuum Brakes for Railways at Home and Overseas
Eighty New Mainline Locomotives Equipped with SKF