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:

All from the same stable...

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A Vokes Limited advert from September 1955 noting the locomotives built by The North British Locomotive Company Limited that were fitted with their filters.

This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Foreign ; Supplier: Vokes ; Component: Filters

More Samples:

Western Region choose Laycock-Knorr brake equipment

Quality and Reliability in Windows and Sliding Door Gear

Co-operating in the Southern Region Electrification

Main Line Electrification going ahead on SKF

all the time-and anywhere

Anti-vibration Mountings

Turplat Hydro-Pneumatic Buffers for maximum protection

Two Note Compressed Air Warning Signals