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Detail #2

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Oil on fine detail canvas
14" x 18"
Framed
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Available...."Alchemist Gallery" High Street, Dingwall.
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Shovelling the ash from the smokebox was one of the less savory tasks at a steam depot. The locomotive depicted here is 23-035, a class 23 passenger type which was the final and most modern design built for the Deutche Bundesbahn in the 1950's. The last were retired from Crailsheim Depot in 1976 and several have been preserved. This painting is based on an original transparency in our collection.
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Detail #1

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Oil on Linen.
24" x 18" in Light Oak Frame
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SOLD...."Alchemist Gallery" High Street, Dingwall.
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High Quality Fine Art Prints of this painting also available from....
"Beauly Insurance Services", High Street, Invergordon and "Alchemist Gallery",High Street, Dingwall .
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Ex L.M.S. Stanier 5MT "Black Five" No.45429 makes a spectacular sight as it storms Shap Summit with the 1S34 Crewe-Glasgow in 1964. This painting is based on an original transparency in our collection.

Oil on canvas
30" x 20"
Framed
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One of the classic "Warship Class" locomotives passes through Battersea Station in 1967 with the distinctive DECCA building in the background.
A scene which has changed beyond recognition. This painting took seven weeks to complete and is based on an original transparency in our collection.

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12" x 9"
Oil on Linen
In Bespoke Charcoal Painted Wooden Frame.
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SOLD - "Alchemist Gallery, High Street, Dingwall
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A little snapshot in time of a scene gone forever. I took this photo in 1987 while attending an art course at Inverness College and have finally got around to painting it in all its monochrome glory.
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Oil on Canvas.
16"x12" in 3.5" wide wood frame.
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SOLD...."Alchemist Gallery" High Street, Dingwall.
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Gresley streamlined A4 Pacific No.60034 "Lord Faringdon" departs Aberdeen on 25th.May 1965 with the 13.30pm. 3 hour express to Glasgow Buchanan Street. The few surviving A4s put in superb service on the Aberdeen expresses until 1966. 6 of these magnificent engines have survived into preservation. This painting is based on an original transparency in our collection.

Oil on canvas
14" x 18"
Framed
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SOLD....Beauly Insurance Services, Invergordon.
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From the first days of steam trains there were small boys who dreamed of being engine drivers. This wee chap sitting in the drivers seat of an Ivatt Mogul in the 1960s certainly looks to be having his "Best Day Ever". This painting is based on an original transparency in our collection.

Oil on canvas
80cm. x 60cm. Framed.
SOLD - PRIVATE COLLECTION
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No.45000 was designed by Sir William Stanier and built at Crewe for the L.M.S. in March 1935. Numerically the first of over 800 built and one of the most successful locomotive types ever to run in Britain.
Withdrawn from service in Oct 1967, 45000 happily survived having been claimed for the National Collection and is on display at the National Railway Museum, York. This painting is based on an original transparency.

Oil on board
16" x 14
Framed
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SOLD...."Inchmore Gallery"
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The Hayling Island Branch which ran from Havant to Hayling South was a little classic in every way. Operated until the end by the tiny A1X Terrier Tank Locos, the line always showed a small profit but the cost of repairs to the Langston viaduct were cited as excuse for closure and it ceased to exist in late 1963.
We were lucky to obtain some original slides taken during the last year of operation of this charming line and my painting depicts a train heading over the Langston bridge in 1963. A lovely scene, gone but not forgotten.

Oil on linen
24" x 20" Framed.
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SOLD - PRIVATE COLLECTION
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Peter Drummonds' elegant C Class, better known as the "Small Bens", were one of the best and longest lived Highland Railway locomotives. The last
in service, 54398 Ben Alder, was finally withdrawn in 1953 and set aside for preservation. Unfortunately, after 13 years in storage at various
locations, it was decided that it was not required after all and was
scrapped in 1966 leaving only one ex Highland loco in existence (Jones Goods No.103). This has gone down in history as one of the great losses in railway preservation.
This painting is taken from an old black and white negative in our
collection and depicts Ben Alder in store at the side of Lochgorm Works Inverness in 1953. This is such a sad story that I felt compelled to
paint this scene.....a way of bringing it back to life I suppose.