Train time

Posted on January 19, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cheddleton, Churnet valley railway, Hubby, Leek, Memories, Sad, Staffordshire, Steam trains, Trains4 Comments

Watercolour painting of the top half of Cheddleton Station near Leek in Staffordshire. I have travelled on the steam train from there several times with my hubby. Something I will really miss. He was a bit of a steam train fanatic and always had masses of information in his mind. He recognised the make and types of trains (and tractors and cars) he could tell the make of tractors by the colours they were painted. Old Fergus on tractors were grey ‘old grey Fergie’ he would say.

Here’s a link to their website:

https://www.churnetvalleyrailway.co.uk/

Train

Posted on September 22, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Design, Drawing, History, Life, possible screenprint, Sketching, snow plough, Steam trains, Stylus, TrainLeave a comment

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was train. Train design, didn’t look at an image, just channelling a screen print idea. The Green light is on the front of an American style train with a snow plow sort of thing. Obviously based on steam trains. Maybe in a transport museum? Artrage app drawing.

Rail bus at Bury

Posted on October 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beeching cuts, Bury, Day out, Diesel engine, East lancs railway, keithley and worth Valley railway, Steam trains, Train, Train spotting, Train tripLeave a comment

This was a German railbus last year at Bury Station. This was on the East Lancashire Preserved railway that runs up to Ramsbottom and Rawtenstall. The line is run by volunteers. This was part of a line that extended up to the Keighthly and Worth Valley railway. But a section was lost when Dr Beeching cut many of the railways in the early 1960’s when masses of steam trains were scrapped. Some of this was done when passenger use was light (eg school holidays). Lines were shortened and diesel trains were bought in (which sometimes proved unreliable). Info from my hubby.

A year ago,

Posted on October 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fun, Leaves, Life, Line, Mulch, Poem, Poetry, Steam trains, Track, Train, Welsh StationLeave a comment

Across the tracks

A year ago

The trees had changed

The wind did blow

Leaves on the line

Stopped the train

No steam appears

On time or later

When fallen leaves

Cause a layer

Of mulched and damp

Leaf shaped litter.

Yorkshire Poster

Posted on January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Blue lias, Fossils, Interesting, Life, Moors, North Yorkshire moors railway, Pickering, Poster, Steam trains, Trains, Trees, Whitby, YorkshireLeave a comment

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My hubby came home today with this print of North Eastern Railways ‘the Yorkshire Moors’…. Tranquil solitude. What is interesting is its a railway poster, with no railway visible!

Yorkshire is the largest county in England. It is home of the National Railway museum in York and is crossed by the North Yorkshire moors railway which runs through wooded hills and moors from Whitby on the coast to Pickering in the heart of the moors.

All of the East coast of the county is interesting. There are towns like Scarborough there. A lot of the coast is not very stable. There are cliffs where landslides occur and parts made of mud, called blue lias which is crumbling and full of fossils. You can find Whitby jet in it which is fossilised monkey puzzle trees which is jet black.

Whitby Abbey was a setting for the Dracula story and every year they have goth and steam punk festivals there.

Mallaband-Brown

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