“Impression of Weymouth Quay” – The Channel Islands express meeting the boat on Weymouth Quay station. Me experimenting with a looser pairing style. Weymouth in Dorset in the 1930s. Sadly the station on the Quay is closed nowadays and the trains no longer go through the town to get there.
“Royal Claud” painted digitally in a pastel style using iPad and stylus. The London and North Eastern Railway kept two former Great Eastern “Claud Hamilton” locomotives in an especially splendid version of their Apple Green livery to work Royal Trains from Kings Cross to Wolverton, the station for Sandringham.
Should anyone find it of interest the software tells me this took 15 and a quarter hours of painting time (I must be getting quicker in my old age) and 15,192 ‘brush’ strokes.
This one is something a bit different for me, more a working ‘steam in the landscape’ painting.
“From Hylton Colliery” depicts working steam service in the landscape, specifically a 1960s North Eastern scene showing a coal service from Hylton Colliery.
Peter tells me that in 1876 the Hylton, Southwick & Monkwearmouth railway line was opened. This mineral railway branched off the Stanhope-Tyne railway to follow the N. bank of the Wear round the colliery & join the main North Eastern Railway line through Sunderland.
I gather from notes accompanying the reference photo, this line is now defunct.
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