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Railway water bottle

This is the one thing on the site designed to leave the house. A 500ml stainless steel bottle in white, carrying a picture from the sort of day it is going to spend the rest of its life on.

A white stainless steel water bottle printed with a railway photograph
Illustrative format example. Your own photograph supplies the subject.
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What it physically is

A stainless steel bottle with a white coating, 500ml, printed with your picture. One size and one colour, which keeps the decision to a single question: which photograph.

Which photographs suit it

The print area is a tall, narrow rectangle wrapped round a curve, and that shape is unusual enough to be worth thinking about. Uprights work: a signal gantry, a station nameboard, a locomotive head-on, a lamp post and a bit of platform. A wide landscape shot has to be cropped hard to fit, and usually loses the thing that made it good.

Like the mug, it asks much less of a file than wall art does, so this is a use for the picture that was never going to print large.

Who it is for

Anybody who spends real time at the end of a platform, on a lineside footpath or at an open day in February. It's a practical object first, which is exactly why it gets used more than a novelty gift ever would, and it's the one thing in the range that other enthusiasts will actually see.

The alternatives

For the desk rather than the bag, the mug. For something to hand over or post, the cards. The stage page lists everything we print on.