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:
Pressed Steel help modernise railways
A Pressed Steel Company Limited advert from June 1960 noting that in the past ten years they had built over 90,000 units of rolling stock for railways at home and overseas. Pictured is an AM3 (Class 303) EMU.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: EMU ; Builder: Pressed Steel
More Samples:
Chosen for Midland Region Modernisation
Modernization of British Railways Assisted by Purolator
From First to Last
Pressed Steel help modernise railways
Gresham and Craven London Office
Putting on the Brake in the Far East
Diesel railcars by Gloucester
'Enterprise' Series Mark 11B