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Spirit of the Southern

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1969, about

Service by Night

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1955

Going North, King's Cross Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1893

weymouth

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1960

The Terminus (Penzance Station)

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1925

London and South Western Railway

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

Looking West near Whit Street

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1837

Watercolour design sketch, June 1948

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

sheringham

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1958

Great Western Railway Air Services

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1932, about
Painting, oil on canvas, Letchworth Station, Hertfordshire by Spencer Frederick Gore, 1912. Painting in the Post-Impressionist style depicting Letchworth station, Hertfordshire, with passengers waiting on the platforms. There are station buildings and waiting rooms with red tiled roofs, and a house with a red roof in the distance. There are fields beyond the station. Framed and glazed in acrylic.

Letchworth Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1912

Ouse Bridge, York & Scarborough Railway

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

about 1845

Paddington (Old Station)

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1838

London & North Eastern Railway 4-6-2 Locomotive No 4472 "Flying Scotsman"

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

about 1924

London Brighton & South Coast Railway 2-2-2 Locomotive 'Jenny Lind'

Pictorial Collection (Railway)
Painting, oil on canvas, 'Perth Station, Coming South' by George Earl, 1895. Depicts a busy platform with passengers preparing to board a train for London at the close of the shooting season. The scene is set in about 1885, before the station was enlarged. There are crowds of passengers with hunting dogs, including pointers and setters, and among the luggage are grouse, blackcock and stags' antlers. Station porters carry luggage, a boy sells The Scotsman newspaper and passengers bid farewell to their friends and families. There are signs for the Highland and Caledonian Railways, waiting rooms and notices forbidding smoking. Signed and dated by the artist at bottom right. Framed and glazed.

Perth Station, Coming South

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1895

The Wye Valley

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1955

Devon

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1945
Painting, oil on panel, First Class: The Meeting... and at First Meeting Loved, by Abraham Solomon, 1855. Depicts passengers in a first class railway carriage. A young man in naval uniform leans forward to talk to an elderly gentleman and a young woman, who listen attentively. The gentleman, balding with grey side whiskers, holds a newspaper in his left hand, and is wearing a glove on his right. The woman is wearing a bonnet and hooded shawl, and is sewing. On the seats are blankets, gloves, a parasol and a bunch of red roses. Through the carriage window is a valley with hills and trees. Signed by the artist at bottom right. Framed and glazed. Also known as The Return (First Class).

First Class: The Meeting... and at First Meeting Loved

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1855

Teignmouth is Devon

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1957

The Great Western Railway New Terminus at Paddington

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1854

Chalk Farm and its Environs With a distant view of primrose hill, chalk farm and its environs. taken from park street.

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

about 1838

Camden Town station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1848

Oil painting

Pictorial Collection (Railway)
Painting, oil on panel, Second Class: The Parting 'Thus part we rich in sorrow, Parting poor', by Abraham Solomon, 1855. Depicts passengers in a second class railway carriage. A woman, dressed in black widow’s clothes with a hood and bonnet covering her hair, is seated with her left arm around a boy sailor, clasping his right hand in hers. Facing them is a tearful young woman, holding a handkerchief to her face. There is a carpet bag and bundle of luggage on the seats alongside. Seated behind them are a bearded sailor, wearing an earring and straw hat, and a woman with a colourful bonnet. On the wall of the carriage are advertisements for sea passages to Australia, gold digging equipment and emigrants’ outfits. Through the carriage window is a port with ships’ masts. Framed and glazed. Also known as The Departure (Second Class).

Second Class: The Parting 'Thus part we rich in sorrow, Parting poor'

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1855

Portrait of Timothy Hackworth

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

Railway Architecture - The Entrance to Euston Station, London

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951

Lord Hurcomb

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1955
Painting, oil on canvas, portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859), by John Callcott Horsley, 1848. Depicts Brunel full length, standing, dressed in grey trousers, a frock coat, white shirt and black cravat. His left hand rests on a set of plans, on a table covered with a red cloth. Brunel was married to the artist's sister, Mary Elizabeth Horsely.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1848

York Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1913

Trinity Road Bridge, Wandsworth Common

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1837

Henry Tudor Earl of Richmond King Henry VII of England

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1955

Great Northern, North Eastern and North British Railways

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1907

Euston Arch

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1838-1851
Painting, oil on canvas, portrait of Robert Stephenson (1803-1859), Mechanical and Civil Engineer, 1850s, painting shows the Britannia Bridge in the background. Unknown artist, after or by John Lucas . Framed and glazed.

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

c.1850s

Warwick Castle

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1949

Taff Vale Railway 0-6-0T Locomotive "Venus"

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1866
Painting, oil on canvas, artist unknown, with the caption "Seats for Five Persons", about 1850. Satirical depiction of a crowded compartment of a railway carriage, showing twelve passengers, including a stout woman, an elderly man, an amorous couple and a family with a crying baby. Framed and glazed.

seats for five persons

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

c. 1850

The accident to the Irish Mail Train

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1868

River Spey, near Craigellachie, Banffshire

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1956

Edinburgh

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1937-1939
Painting, oil on canvas, Service to Industry for British Railways, South Grid Railway Sidings, Billingham by Terence Cuneo, 1962. A night scene depicting steam and diesel trains arriving and departing at the Imperial Chemical Industries site at Billingham, near Stockton-on-Tees. In the left foreground black smoke billows from a steam locomotive into the night sky. In the centre a floodlit green diesel locomotive with a train of tank wagons passes under elevated piping. At right are the pylons and tanks of the chemical works. Signed by the artist at bottom left. Original artwork for British Railways Eastern Region poster.

South Grid Railway Sidings. Billingham

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1962

Halesworth, Suffolk

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1948-1955

The Cinque Port of Sandwich, Kent

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1952

grand junction railway 2-2-2 locomotive tamerlane

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

Blitz on an London Midland & Scottish Railway Marshalling Yard near Willesden, September 1940

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

about 1945

Ettrick Bay, Island of Bute

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1956

Colour lithograph, 'View of Train Carriages...', by Charles Vignoles, c 1830

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1825-1835

Bridge over Oyster Lane at Newhaw

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1837

Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1948-1955