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:
Metalastik Bushes Selected for Metrovick Gas Turbine
Metropolitan-Vickers developed a bolsterless swing-link suspension for locomotive 18100 - the first all-British Gas Turbine Electric. To do this they used specially designed Spherical Bearings supplied by Metalastik Limited. The images on the advert show 18100 - which at the time was the most powerful loco on British Railways, photos of the swing-link assembly and the spherical swing-link bush with its rubber-to-metal weld techniques, and a diagram showing a cross-section through the swing link.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: 18100 ; Supplier: Metalastik ; Component: Bushes
More Samples:
Voith Hydraulic Transmission for Railways
Die-Cast Aluminium Passenger Carriage Door
Miniature Control Desks And Relays
Yorkshire Diesel-Electric Locomotives
Axle Boxes - any size from the Smallest to the Largest
Gloucester Builds For The World's Railways
Integra Signalling Fully Automatic Lifting Barriers
...Another Engineering Advance From Bristol Siddeley