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Going North, King's Cross Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1893

Spirit of the Southern

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1969, about

The Terminus (Penzance Station)

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1925

Watercolour design sketch, June 1948

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

Service by Night

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1955

weymouth

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1960
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
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

Watercolour design sketch, June 1948

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

Back to the Sun at Clacton-on-Sea and Holland-on-Sea

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1955

The Progress of Steam

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

Station platform with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

c. 1850

Engine off the line

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

about 1848

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

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

about 1945

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

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

about 1924

The accident to the Irish Mail Train

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1868

Overnight to the Continent via Southampton - Havre

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1960
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

Inveraray Castle, Loch Fyne, Argyll

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1956

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

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1825-1835

Great Western Railway Air Services

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1932, about

The Flower Harvest - Cornwall and the Scillies

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1934

fenland poster original

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1960
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

Anker Viaduct

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1847

Saturday Market Place, Kings Lynn, Norfolk

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1945-1955

Lincoln

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1936-1939

The Cinque Port of Sandwich, Kent

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1952

Coloured engraving 'Changing Gauge at Gloucester', engraved by W J Linton

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1841-1851

The Great Western Railway New Terminus at Paddington

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1854
Watercolour with white on board by Cliff Rowe, 1941. St Pancras Cleaning Yard. Woman cleaning locomotive. Finished painting worked from 85/22/41, with head-on view of woman before locomotive smokebox entrance, holding hose apparatus, in protective clothing; to left, shed window; to right, through smoky archway, more locomotives. One of a series of drawings and paintings by Cliff Rowe of St Pancras Locomotive Cleaning and Goods Yard, 1940-1945 (and derivatives, 1950-1970)

St Pancras Cleaning Yard

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1941
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

Oil painting

Pictorial Collection (Railway)
Painting, oil on canvas, Victoria Bridge over the River Wear by John Wilson Carmichael, 1838. Depicts the Victoria Viaduct on the Durham Junction Railway, seen from the banks of the River Wear. In the foreground men and women work and talk at the riverside, while a train crosses the viaduct, leaving a trail of white smoke. Caption on the frame reads "Victoria Bridge over the River Wear. Built by John Gibb & Son of Aberdeen for the Durham Junction Railway and completed on 28th June 1838, the day of Queen Victoria's coronation, by John Wilson Carmichael". Framed and glazed, glass.

Victoria Bridge over the River Wear

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1838

Camden Town station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1848

SS Batavier

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

c.1960

Ely, Cambridgeshire

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1948-1955

Bolton Abbey

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1948-1955

Looe, South Cornwall

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1935

Bournemouth

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1960

Bristol, Haunt of Long John Silver

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1946
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

River Spey, near Craigellachie, Banffshire

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1956
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

Lord Hurcomb

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1955

grand junction railway 2-2-2 locomotive tamerlane

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

Lithograph. View of the Opening of the Bodmin & Wadebridge

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

Civic Centres - Cardiff

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1952

Portrait of W Guy Granet

Pictorial Collection (Railway)