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      • Alfred the Great

        Posted at 1:29 pm by gatf, on June 8, 2025
        Steam british Railways Britannia portrait digital Oils locomotive 1950s

        A Painting project just finished. British Railways’ Britannia Class Locomotive 70009 ‘Alfred the Great’.

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      • Polar Star at Conwy

        Posted at 1:47 pm by gatf, on February 27, 2023

        Have finished another locomotive portrait painting. “Polar Star at Conwy”. Britannia Class Locomotive 70026 leaving the Conwy Tubular Bridge by the base of the castle walls, late in the afternoon and in a voluminous cloud of steam. Another digital painting project with tablet and stylus, executed in an oil style.

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      • A Rainy Evening in Birmingham

        Posted at 12:21 pm by gatf, on January 5, 2023
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        “A Rainy Evening in Birmingham” Traffic on a wet evening (very unlike out current Perth Weather) in 1950s Birmingham. Traffic and tram passengers make their way home on wet roads. A new year’s digital painting project.

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        1950s city rainy traffic tram transportation wet

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      • Tri-ang Transcontinental Switcher

        Posted at 3:53 am by gatf, on January 5, 2021
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        Another of my “Triang imagined as real” paintings. This time it’s the Transcontinental Switcher, inspired particularly by Stephen Jack’s recent post.

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        Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged 1950s, diesel, locomotive, overseas, railway, real, toy

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