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 NEW Northey Flange Mounted Rotary Exhauster
An October 1961 advert from Gresham & Craven Limited for the vacuum exhausters manufactured for them by Northey Rotary Compressors Limited.
This advert appears in the following categories: Supplier: Gresham and Craven ; Component: Brakes
More Samples:
Diesel Railcars: Design Development and Construction
Say 'rubber components' and you've said Spencer Moulton
Steam Heating of Railcars and Trailers
Diesel locomotives... for British Railways
There are many ways of counting...
Plug-in Relays for the Modern Signalling Installation
Drewry Rail Cars And Locomotives
All along the line