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:

Economical And Safe

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A June 1960 advert from The Clyde Rubber Works Company Limited showing the rubber sleeper pads they made.

This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 113 ; Component: Permanent Way

More Samples:

Success of Light Alloy Construction earns Repeat Order

New Approach to Wagon Handling

Designers and Builders of all types

Long-Burning Oil Lamps

Over 600 Sulzer Engines for British Railways Modernisation

Built at Glasgow for British Railways

Say 'Pullman Comfort' and you've said Spencer Moulton

Traction Equipment for More Efficient Transport