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:
Mile After Mile Around the World
An April 1951 advert from the English Steel Corporation Limited promoting their springs for railway rolling stock.
This advert appears in the following categories: Supplier: English Steel Corporation ; Component: Springs
More Samples:
Charles Roberts Centenary Year
Rolls-Royce supply complete diesel powered traction equipment
The best answer is Brush
Contract Completed 760 Diesel Railcars
Gloucester Builds For The World's Railways
British Railways use A-MP solderless wiring devices
Metropolitan-Vickers 1,200 h.p. Diesel-Electric Locomotives
Better bearings in better locomotives