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:

For 50 years Cambrian have been building wagons

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A Cambrian Wagon & Engineering Company Limited advert from 1956 celebrating half a century of wagon building.

This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Wagons ; Builder: Cambrian

More Samples:

Abtus Made in England

For A Start Use Crompton!

Track Maintenance with Speed and Economy

British Railways Second Gas Turbine Locomotive No. 18100

Maybach Power Comes to Britain

Convincing Curves on shock absorption

Here There and Everywhere

Quality in quantity