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:
Sulzer on Important Services on the Highland Section
This was a February 1962 cover advert this a different shape from the normal full/half page design. It features a pair of BRC&W Type 2s fitted with Sulzer engines (later known as Class 26s) working on the Highland Section of the Scottish Region - probably a service from Glasgow and/or Edinburgh to Inverness.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Class 26 ; Supplier: Sulzer ; Component: Diesel Engines (Power Unit)
More Samples:
Supremacy
Transmission Equipment for Locomotives Planned and Present
1961 Model Powered Rail Drill
Diesel Mechanical Locomotives and Railcars
Superior Railcar Components
Braking Power by Air
Smooth Facts About Commonwealth Bogies
Power to Stop the new Diesel Electric Pullman Trains