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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
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

Teignmouth is Devon

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1957
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

Weybridge Cutting

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1837

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

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

about 1924

Looking West near Whit Street

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1837

Colne Valley Viaduct, Chappel, Essex

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1945-1955

Great Western Railway Air Services

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1932, about

Euston Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1837

London and South Western Railway

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

Walton Common

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1837

Railway Architecture, Wolverton Viaduct

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951

The accident to the Irish Mail Train

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1868

Camden Town station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1848

The Progress of Steam

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

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

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1866

Viaduct at Weybridge

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1837

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

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

about 1945

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

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

Standard Goods Locomotive 'John Buddle'

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1846

Doric Arch Under Construction

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1838

Trinity Road Bridge, Wandsworth Common

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1837

Railway Architecture - South Portals of Primrose Hill Tunnels, London

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1951

The Glorious Thames

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1937
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

Anker Viaduct

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1847

Ely, Cambridgeshire

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1948-1955

Bristol, Haunt of Long John Silver

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1946

Devon

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1945

Bristol

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1936

River Spey, near Craigellachie, Banffshire

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1956

Looe, South Cornwall

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1935

Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, Rose Hill

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1836

Portrait of Timothy Hackworth

Pictorial Collection (Railway)
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

Warwick Castle

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1949

Beccles, Suffolk

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1948-1955
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

The Cinque Port of Sandwich, Kent

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1952

Edinburgh

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1937-1939

Glen Tanner, near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire.

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1956

grand junction railway 2-2-2 locomotive tamerlane

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

Paddington (Old Station)

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1838

Streamlined Trains

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1936

Bridge over Oyster Lane at Newhaw

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1837

Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1948-1955

Edinburgh

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1924