Bespoke ranges for museums

For museums, heritage railways and aircraft collections

Your collection, drawn as a product range of your own

We illustrate the locomotives, aircraft and vehicles in your care and turn them into prints, cards and gifts that only your shop can sell.

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Framed 80 Class poster made for the Downpatrick and County Down Railway, showing unit 69 in maroon and blue with the town cathedral on the hill behind
Ranges created for
The Watercress Line
Downpatrick and County Down Railway

Why a range of your own

It is about your collection
Visitors take home the engine they rode behind or the aircraft they stood under, not a generic souvenir.
Only your shop has it
Each illustration is drawn for you, in your liveries and with your numbers and names.
One design, many products
The same artwork works as a poster, a card, a mug and a set, so the range fills a shelf.

What we can make

Posters and prints
A5 to A1, on 200gsm semi-gloss paper.
Crystal artboard
A4 and A3 on rigid 5mm board, ready to display.
Greetings and Christmas cards
A5 cards, plus cards cut to the shape of the locomotive.
Mugs
Your illustration wrapped around a mug.
Print sets
Matching sets of two to five prints from your fleet.
Gift shop favourites
Tote bags, coasters, fridge magnets, pin badges, tea towels and foam boards.

Our work

Watercress Line tote bag printed with a green steam locomotive Watercress Line coasters featuring locomotive No. 925 Watercress Line fridge magnet cut to the shape of the illustration Watercress Line pin badge on a First Class Prints backing card
Heritage railway, Hampshire

The Watercress Line

We illustrated two of the railway's locomotives, the Schools Class No. 925 Cheltenham and a Class 50 diesel, and the railway sells them as posters.

We also showed how the No. 925 design could become a wider gift range, with tote bags, coasters, shaped fridge magnets, pin badges and foam board prints. The pictures here are from that proposal.

Heritage railway, County Down, Northern Ireland

Downpatrick and County Down Railway

A series of three locomotives from the railway's collection, each set against the town's cathedral on the hill and co-branded with the railway's crest. The designs were made into posters, mugs and tea towels:

  • CIÉ A39R, a 1956 Metropolitan-Vickers A Class diesel
  • CSÉT No.3, a 1935 Orenstein & Koppel steam locomotive
  • NIR 80 Class, a diesel electric multiple unit built by BREL in the 1970s
CIÉ A39R poster: a black, orange and red diesel locomotive with the Downpatrick and County Down Railway crest Framed CSÉT No.3 poster: a small black steam locomotive numbered 3 Framed 80 Class poster: unit 69 in maroon and blue

How it works

1
Tell us about your collection
Which locomotives, aircraft or vehicles matter most to your visitors, and what your shop sells now.
2
We draw them
We illustrate each one from reference photos and your records, and you approve the artwork before anything is printed.
3
Choose your products
Pick the sizes and products that suit your shop and your price points.
4
We print and supply
We produce your chosen products to a high standard and deliver them ready for your shelves.
Every range is different
We will talk through quantities, timings and pricing with you, so the range suits your shop and your visitors.

Talk to us about a range for your shop

Tell us about your collection and we will come back with ideas. You will deal directly with Rob and Emily, who will design your range.

Email us about a bespoke range
hello@first-class-prints.co.uk