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:
Busy Lines
A May 1960 advert from The General Electric Company (GEC) for their broad range of railway electric equipment. The image shows a long train passing at speed, the overheads suggesting a DC electrified line.
This advert appears in the following categories: Supplier: GEC ; Component: Electrification
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