Textile design and ‘re-branding’ the railways

The Wolverton Works archive documents the design and manufacture of carriages and wagons, the design process was not limited to the carriages themselves but also the intricate decor inside.

The Wolverton Works drawing collection contains examples of carpet designs for royal carriages, special saloons and sleeping carriages.

This particular design above made up of the letters L, M and S would have been drafted as a re-branding exercise, much like the ones we see today, to mark the London and North Western Railway being absorbed into the London Midland and Scottish in 1923


Reference number: WOLV 6/1082


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Filed under: Library and archive collections, Research Tagged: archives, Design, London Midland and Scottish Railway, Textiles, trains, wolverton works

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