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:
Now Mexico
A Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Company Limited advert from 1964. The had supplied 20 of these diesel railcars to the Jamaica Railway Corporation and now 40 had been ordered for Mexico. Powered by Rolls-Royce engines they were suitable for mixed traffic use able to haul 40 tons per power car.
This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Foreign ; Builder: Metro-Cammell
More Samples:
The best answer is Brush
Sulzer Diesel Engines for Southern Region
Rolling Stock
SKF on Scottish Region
Supremacy
GEC 25kV Locomotives
Reflective for Safety
Signalling Liverpool St. - Shenfield Electrification