Branching Out: The Art of the Railway

"Trains are wonderful... To travel by train is to see nature."

Train Landscape, Eric Ravilious, Watercolour on Paper (Collage), 1940 (Aberdeen Art Gallery)

York Station, Bertram Augustus Curry, Oil on Canvas, 1913 (National Railway Museum)

‘The 'Coronation Scot' Ascending Shap Fell, Cumbria’, Norman Wilkinson, Oil on Canvas, 1937 (National Railway Museum)

The Waiting Room, Derek Stafford, Oil on Board, 1951 (Royal College of Art)

Westminster, Stephen Bone, Oil on Canvas, 1939 (Grundy Art Gallery)

Hospital Train, Evelyn Mary Dunbar, Oil on Canvas, 1942 (Imperial War Museum)

Newquay (Railway Poster), Herbert Alker Tripp, Oil on Canvas, 1945 (National Railway Museum)

‘The Terminus, Penzance Station, Cornwall’, Stanhope Alexander Forbes, Oil on Canvas, 1925 (National Railway Museum)

Etna, Tirzah Garwood, Oil on Canvas, 1944 (Private Collection)

Waterloo Station in Wartime, Denys George Wells, 1942 (Science Museum Group Collection)

‘The Underworld: Taking cover in a Tube Station during a London air raid’, Walter Bayes, 1918 (Imperial War Museum)

Glorious Devon (Railway Poster), Gyrth Russell, Oil on Canvas, 1951 (National Railway Museum)

Euston Station: Loading the Travelling Post Office, Grace Lydia Golden, Acrylic on Board, 1948 (The Postal Museum)

The Tay Bridge from My Studio Window, James McIntosh Patrick, Oil on Canvas, 1948 (Dundee Art Galleries & Museums)

Restaurant Car, Leonard Campbell Taylor, Oil on Canvas, c. 1935 (National Railway Museum)

Letchworth Station, Spencer Gore, Oil on Canvas, 1912 (National Railway Museum)

Ripon Cathedral (Railway Poster), Charles Ginner, Oil on Canvas, 1933 (Hatton Gallery)

Railway Men, Stephen Bone, Oil on Canvas, 1942 (Rugby Art Gallery & Museum)

Oxford Circus Underground Station, Maxwell Ashby Armfield, Oil on Canvas, 1905 (Government Art Collection)

Train Going Over A Bridge At Night, Eric Ravilious, 1935 (Towner Art Gallery)

Underground, Thomas Cantrell Dugdale, Oil on Canvas, 1932 (Walker Art Gallery)

St. Michael’s Mount (Railway Poster), Ronald Lampitt, Oil on Canvas, Date Unknown (National Railway Museum)

St Pancras Signals, Elwin Hawthorne, Oil on Canvas, Date Unknown (Camden Local Studies & Archives Centre)

Standing-By on Train 21: A Civilian Evacuation Train Ready to Evacuate Casualties at Short Notice, Evelyn Mary Dunbar, Oil on Canvas, 1941 (Imperial War Museum)

Liverpool Street Station, Marjorie Sherlock, Oil on Canvas, 1917 (Government Art Collection)

‘Wells Farm Railway Bridge, Acton, London’, Lucien Pissarro, Oil on Canvas, 1907 (Leeds Art Gallery)

‘The Revellers' Return, Charities Day’, Francis Patrick Martin, Oil on Canvas, c. 1934 (McLean Museum & Art Gallery)

Trains are wonderful… To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

Agatha Christie

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