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Great Central Railway 4-4-0 locomotive no 434 'The Earl of Kerry'

1935-1987

Train in a Spanish landscape

Great Northern Railway (Ireland) 4-4-0 locomotive no 172

1935-1987

Fairlie Locomotive on Festiniog Railway

1935-1987

South Eastern & Chatham Railway 4-4-0 locomotive no.516

1935-1987

Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway 4-4-0 locomotive no 41

1935-1987

The Bristolian

Great Western Railway 2-6-2T Locomotive no 4555

1935-1987

Letchworth Station

1912

man driving a miniature steam locomotive

1950-1959

Second Class: The Parting

1855

The Bournemouth Belle

1965-1987

London Tilbury & Southend Railway 4-4-2T Locomotive no 81 'Aveley'

1935-1987
Painting, oil on canvas, Going North, King's Cross by George Earl, about 1893. Depicts a busy platform scene at Kings Cross Station as a train of East Coast Joint Stock carriages is prepared for departure. One carriage has a destination board for Edinburgh and Perth "via the Forth Bridge", another for Aberdeen "via the Forth & Tay Bridges" and the third for Perth. There are groups of passengers and their servants, including a ghillie, Indian ayah, grooms and footmen. A soldier kisses his wife goodbye. There are about twenty hunting dogs, including spaniels, setters and pointers, and the luggage includes fishing tackle, golf clubs, guns and other sporting equipment. Station staff adjust the oil lamps, carry luggage and assist crowds of passengers. Beneath the curve of the train shed roof are advertisements for the Daily Telegraph and Van Houten's Cocoa, and Pears Soap featuring "Bubbles" by Millais. Signed in red on a suitcase "Geo. Earl". Handwritten note on the reverse of the painting records the donation of the painting by G H Stuart-Bunning to Sir Josiah Stamp of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway in 1930. Framed and glazed. frame: 1330 mm x 2125 mm x 140 mm

Going North - King's Cross

1893-1895
Painting, oil on canvas, 'Looking Down On A Jinty' by Colin Verity. Framed, depicts a London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) 3F 0-6-0T in dirty LMS livery engaged in shunting a brake van and two wagons in an industrial urban setting as if the artist was sitting at a higher level looking own on the loco from the rear three-quarter view.

LMS Shunting - Looking Down On A 'Jinty'

circa 2006
Oil on canvas, painting of the Solar Spectrum / C M Simpson, 4'6 1/4"x4 3/8". In preparing this representation of the visible portion of the Solar Spectrum, Miss Simpson used the solar spectroscope at the Observatory of William Alfred Parr (1865-1936), FRAS at St Albans. The colours are rendered as faithfully as possible, and the position of the Fraunhofer absorption lines are indicated. Parr used a 4-inch Cooke equatorial to which was attached a 2-prism Evershed spectroscope made for him by Adam Hilger, Ltd in his Observatory, 1926-1936.

Solar Spectrum

circa 1931