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- Two Kings in Waiting
  
  Posted at 1:24 pm by gatf, on January 10, 2022
  “Two Kings in Waiting”… or express travel how it used to be. Two ex Great Western Railway ‘King’ Class locomotives await their departure fro Paddington station around about 1960, give or take a couple of years. The nearer one is ‘King Richard III’ the further’s identity remains unknown.
  
  I was tring for a more impressionistic style with this painting, and I’m not sure that comes across in the finished work, though I’m quite pleased with it. There is substantially less detail here than I’ve sometimes done in the past – there must be, it was completed much more quickly, but I’m not sure that the difference isall that noticeable. There might be a message in that!
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  Posted in Diversions | 0 Comments | Tagged British, Great Western, locomotives, Paddington, railway, steam, train
- Five Poised for Action
  
  Posted at 3:06 pm by gatf, on July 27, 2021
  A newly completed painting from the days when rail travel was done in style. Technical information follows for those interested in such matters.
  
  Five of Sir Nigel Gresley’s finest, in steam and poised for High Speed action, seen here in the full glory of their pre-war condition London and North Eastern Railway condition. For the eagle eyed amongst you, one of these is not an A4…
  
  5 Poised for Action
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  Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged Blue, express, locomotive, railway, steam, streamline. 1940s
- Through the Wall
  
  Posted at 1:48 pm by gatf, on April 28, 2021
  I call this one “Through the Wall”. A Stanier Black Five 4-6-0 makes its way through the purpose made arch in the medieval town walls of Conway (nowadays called Conwy) in the early 1960s. To me, scenes like this capture the spirit of the dying days of the working national steam railway.
  Through the Wall 0 1 0 Published: April 28th 2021
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  Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged 1960s, locomotive, North Wales, railway, speed, Stanier, steam
- Tri-ang Transcontinental Switcher
  
  Posted at 3:53 am by gatf, on January 5, 2021
  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
- No. 7187
  
  Posted at 1:32 pm by gatf, on June 13, 2020
  When I was young and used to spend a lot of time on model railways, Triang-Hornby had a little tank engine, or a family of them “Nellie”, “Polly” and “Connie” as well as some numbered brothers such as “No.27”. They had a certain charm, but were as much toy as model really. This year is Hornby Railways’ hundredth birthday, so as my own little tribute, here is No.7178 re-imagined as a real locomotive.
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  Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged Blue, hypothetical, locomotive, railway, steam, tank engine
- Manor and Hall in the West Country
  
  Posted at 9:08 am by gatf, on April 26, 2020
  Great Western Railway Manor “Lydham Manor” and Hall class locos travelling through the English West Country. This is an oil painting I did in 1997, with a little digital restoration to correct the way the colours had aged. I made a bad mistake at the time, using cold-pressed (instead of boiled) linseed oil as a medium. Lovely if you want to impart a golden brown colour to your work over time, but otherwise not a thing to repeat!
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  Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged locomotives. landscape, natural media, oils, Paint, painting, railway, steam
- The Emmet and Heath Robinson Railway Company.
  
  Posted at 1:57 pm by gatf, on April 4, 2019
  A rather flamboyant sketch, entirely from imagination, but inspired by the art of Messrs Roland Emmett and William Heath Robinson. The odd thing is that nonsense like this from imagination takes a really long time to do – over two weeks of drawing time went in to this.
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  Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged comedy, Drawing, humourous, illustration, railway, sketch
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