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:
Underslung Suspension
A Timken advert from 1964 for their tapered roller bearings which had been used on almost 1,000 locomotives with underslung suspension.
This advert appears in the following categories: Supplier: Timken ; Component: Bearings
More Samples:
For main lines or sidings the world over
Miniature Control Desks And Relays
Layout in 109 F.B. Rail
Britain's fastest express uses Harper Castings
Main Line Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotives
Role of the Railcar
On the right lines...
Gresham's Vacuum Brake Testing Equipment