(freehand and painted in water based oils) Commissioned by Mr Martin Head, railway enthusiast and member of the Leamington and Warwick Model Railway Society. Here we see Martin in his secondary school days in the late 1960s, talking to the Engine Driver of a Deltic diesel pulling the Flying Scotman train at Kings Cross Station, […]
Train Spotters view the Locomotives and trains at the beautifully designed New Street Station in Birmingham in 1957, before it was sadly demolished in the mid 1960s. A 4P Fowler tank locomotive 2-6-2T (no 42395) is waiting to depart from New Street. See PRESS article in the Leamington Spa/Warwick Courier newspaper, Friday February 3 2012. […]
(freehand and painted in oils) Commissioned by Mr Ray Pettit. The beauty and majesty of the Duchess and Coronation Class steam locomotives, designed by Sir William Stanier. Here we have No 6233 in LMS livery, Duchess Of Sutherland hauling an express on the LMS network defying the elements. The locomotive was later renumbered 46233 under […]
(freehand and painted in water based oils) This painting was inspired by a black and white photograph taken by Mr Leonard Stace in the early 1960's. A perishing cold morning on platform 10, New Street Station, Birmingham UK. waiting for the train, which was late. A Stanier Black 5 waits for the signal on the […]
(freehand and painted in water based oils.) Clun Castle, representing the Castle Class locomotive, built at Swindon, designed by C B Collett in 1923 on a wet night at Paddington.Station, London UK A very elegant looking locomotive. Giclee prints size 16 in x 12in priced at £60 each are for sale. [paypal_button item="Clun Castle at […]
(freehand and painted in water based oils) This Railway Station (Warwick Milverton) was closed in 1965 and demolished in 1968. The Station was originally a terminus called Leamington and opened in 1844, with a branch line to Coventry. The Station's name changed many times during its life and was finally named Leamington Spa (Milverton) by […]
(freehand and painted in water based oils) This location is only half a mile from my Art Studio in Royal Leamington Spa. Here we have a G2 Class LNWR 7F Bowen Cooke steam locomotive being serviced under gas lamps around the time of Nationalisation in 1948 at Warwick Milverton Engine Shed 2C. It is now […]
(Original artwork painted in water based oils) Commissioned by Bradford Exchange Ltd., London The most famous Steam Locomotive in the world at Newcastle Upon Tyne in the 1930s. Flying Scotsman No 4472 built at Doncaster in 1923 and designed by Sir Nigel Gresley. No 4472 is part of the A3 Class type Locomotive. There is […]
(freehand and painted in oils) A mixed traffic 2P Class tank engine locomotive no 41312 hauling a surburban passenger train on the London North Western Railway in the 1950s crossing the Oxford Canal at Hillmorton near Rugby (UK) Romance Of Steam Kevin Alun Parrish GRA © 2006