Where can I get train seat covers?

Question

I am fascinated about trains and want to collect train seat covers because I like the different patterns on them.

Answer 1

Now I've heard it all. Try asking at your nearest major repair depot.

Answer 2

Government!

Answer 3

cool i see you are a fellow stoat/veg like me(: you should go to a train scrapyard visit the national rail museum york and ask them if they have any train seat covers if that fails then you must google ANORAKSIA and try and find their train interior shots towards the bottom of the page! that is about as close to heaven as you will get!

Answer 4

Find a railway scrapyard for real old stuff, ask the manager and some old seat material might be yours for the price of a crate of beer.

For newer try a maintenance depot, Seven Kings(GE FIRST) East Ham(C2C), Norwich (FIRST Intercity type) etc etc ask a frindly face, you never know your luck>

Answer 5

Dear me; and I thought I had specialist hobbies.

Join a local railway preservation group and you will be in heaven!

Answer 6

Alex-

I belong to a club that restores old railway equipmnet.  What you are asking for, is nearly impossible to get.  Most of the time, we get the material as close as possible.  We are dealing with such an issue now.

The car we are working on is from the Shasta Daylight, (Southern Pacific Daylight), she is an articulated diner called "Cascades".

Many of the seats in the lounge section have the Daylight Logo embordered on them, and have deteriorated to a point where the seats are unable to be sat in.  We sent a sample of the material out to be matched, and we found some that is close, but not exact.  The issue is having the logos re-embordered on the fabric.  Needless to say, its very expensive.

You are going to be pretty hard pressed to get some of those items, mainly because when the railroads dropped their passenger services, much of the equipmnet was scrapped, or turned into Maintenance Of Way, (MOW), equipment used for housing work crews.  Anything that was really nice inside the cars, was normally removed, and replaced with bunks, stoves, restrooms, A/C Units, heaters, lockers, and in some cases even showering facilities.  So all of the posh, touristy stuff went to the dump.

Anything that was saved, were normally turned into business cars, and these are still in use by many railroads, to move their executive staff from one point to another.

The only things I have seen have been at train shows, or antique shows, and has been very costly.  However, I will bet that if you want some of the Amtrak things you can get them.

Good Luck!