Pacific at night is public’s favourite painting at railway artists’ show
A DRAMATIC scene of LMS Princess Coronation Pacific No. 46235 City of Birmingham storming through the night under a leaden sky was the public’s overwhelming favourite at the Guild of Railway Artists’annual Railart exhibition, which closed on September 30.
The oil painting, by guild president John Austin, won the on an express at Kidderminster, and third place went to Malcolm Root’s depiction of LNER F5 class 2-4-2T No. 67200 on an Ongar train at Epping. The leading watercolour in the poll was of a Class 37 diesel at Grangemouth by James Green.
