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:
This is Margam
An Associated Electrical Industries-GRS Limited advert from August 1961. It notes all the AEI-GRS equipment they supplied for Europe's first fully automatic marshalling yard.
This advert appears in the following categories: Supplier: Associated Electrical Industries ; Component: Permanent Way
More Samples:
In Spain they say
North British Locomotives - Main Line Passenger and Freight
The most Modern Train in the World
Southern Electrics for the Kent Coast
Consummate Quality and Workmanship
Britain's fastest express uses Harper Castings
Take a railway coach...
Only the Paxman Ventura Combines