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-the Roadrailer

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A Pressed Steel Company Limited advert from April 1961 promoting their wagon that took just 150 seconds to convert to a trailer for articulated lorry.

This advert appears in the following categories: Traction: Wagons ; Builder: Pressed Steel

More Samples:

40 3000v 3030hp 3'6" gauge Locomotives

Recently supplied to the Chilanga Cement Corporation

Metcalfe's Air Brake Equipment for Carriages and Wagons

35 four-car trains for 25kV 50 cycle AC Electrification

Serck Cooling Groups for Diesel Locomotives

Fowler Means Faster Handling

These new British Railways diesel railcars are SKF equipped

Skirted Junction Fishplates