Interior
3D Printing
Paul Woodroffe - Any items up to 6cmx6cm and will make items for TRA members at reasonable cost. Has already made battery box signs for preserved railcars - Contact details are available through Richard Thornton
Cab Controls
DSD springs - located inside throttle controller used for deadman's device - Trevor Daw - Group order manufactured February 2014 at £3.62 each inc vat
Destination Blinds
Blinds for Buses - All blinds made to order, any style, any number of destinations. Also produce "yellowed" blinds to give an authentic aged look.
GH Blinds - 2 and 4 character headcode blinds - Geoff Hudspith 01438 725 030 - Sample blind required for reproduction. No minimum order but unit price diminishes with multiple orders.
McKenna Brothers - all blinds made to order - 01616 553 244
Percy Lane Products - supply mechanical components for destination blind mechanisms, such as gears, handles etc - 01827 638 21
Destination Blind Mechanisms
Indicators International - Brand new destination & route indicator blind mechanisms made bespoke to order. Used by Llangollen Railcars on the Class 100, 104 & 105.
Door Locks/Mechanisms
Severn Valley Rly C&W Department - New castings and parts manufactured for door mechanisms: ram bolts, catch plates springs, budget locks etc.
Hugh McQuade (C&W Manager) - 01562 672 17
Door Runner Felt (Droplight Side Runners)
Automobile Trimmings - Use section FR/88/2 (Update: section FR/90/2 may give the glass more room but confirmation that it fits inside the metal channel is required!) - 02082 048 242
Flooring
Carpetrunners - Their "premier door bar" range includes joining strips suitable for lino-to-carpet joins - 01295 722 831
Narvida - Steel corrugated flooring - More "angular" than the original, but fits as a direct replacement without issue - 01383 823 417
Formica & Alternative Interior Panels
Abet Laminate - "Compact grade" high pressure laminate. (Formica is a brand of this; there are others including Abet Laminati)
They come in various thicknesses; 3mm was adequate for a Class 105. A 3m x 1.3m sheet cost £87 in 2019. Finish was Morbida, which is a semi-gloss. Minimum order was 5 sheets as it was a stock item. The chance of a pattern match is nil, but general appearance via a solid colour should be relatively easy.
You can get samples of colours and thicknesses. They can also scan and print, but that would be £££.
Dibond - Dibond with printed vinyl. This was done by a local media company; it's used for large signs etc. You can also print direct onto the Dibond; I don't know which would be harder wearing. I guess a local print shop would be able to help, if you ask whether they can scan something in and then print it onto vinyl on Dibond. You do of course need at least one decent area of panel to scan the pattern from! The company we used (simply because I can walk there in 10 minutes from home). The centre saloon of 56097 was around £1,000 for the wall panels printed and cut to size. We were lucky to reuse the pattern from 1st class, just a different tint. The partitions were OK so we didn't do those. There would most likely be an artwork charge as well, depending how much tidying up was required, and how many goes were needed to match the original.
Ipswich Plastics - Suppliers of Formica group panels - 01463 270 101 - "ColorCore Diamond Black Satin NDF" is a suitable material for recovering cab desks
Polyrey - "Compact grade" high pressure laminate. (Formica is a brand of this; there are others including Polyray). 56456's 2nd class is 'Paloma Jade'. That was £101/sheet in 2020. If you look at one of the colours, you can expand the availability table and look for 'compact grade'. It was made to order, so we had to take 12 sheets. I can't remember how the finishes work for Polyrey - it's glossier than the 2nd class but still acceptable.
Lighting
Bedazzled - Suppliers of LED equivalent bulbs - 01327 843811 - Particularly useful for marker lights, destination blinds etc
CEAG - Manufacturer of railway lamps and traditional incandescent bulbs - Products include white marker lights (54/39999) and red marker lights (54/39984)
Seat Moquette
Cammann Gobelin Manufktur - Suppliers of custom materials with reasonable minimum lengths - Supplied original moquette for the restoration of W&M Railbus 79962 in 2021 for owners VCT, 70m costing E6,000 - individual contact is Torsten Bäz
Holdsworths - Original BR Pattern DMU moquette (material) - Includes First Class Black cheque (BR cat no 36/35615) and Second Class Blue/Green cheque known as "Bournemouth Blue" (BR cat no 36/35666)
Torrington Coastal Restorations - Supply Holdsworths moquettes without the minimum order. Limited range however several patterns authentic for railcars are present in the range, notably "Bournemouth Blue", "Trojan", "Charcoal Check" etc
Signage
John Walton Engraving - "Traffolyte" switch panels etc as used in cabs - 01226 290 780
RM Labels - Pipework identification products and general signage including traffolyte.