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:
The big lift...
A Cowans, Sheldon & Company Limited advert from November 1961 for their 250 ton diesel-hydraulic railway breakdown crane which was supplied, along with a smaller version to the Quebec Cartier Mining Company.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Cranes ; Builder: Cowans Sheldon
More Samples:
Which battery is built like the Forth Bridge?
Walker Diesel Mechanical Railcars
Three More STC Communication Installations
Brush Design of Type 4 Diesel Electric Locomotive
Traction Motor Suspension Units
East Anglia Knows the Power of Mirrlees National
Type 1 1000hp Diesel-Electric Locomotives
Lightweight Diesel Railcars for Australia