"Patrick Whitehouse bought Kolhapur as a wreck and it was restored at the Tyseley Railway Museum in Birmingham, which he founded. Kolaphur was one of the few locomotives which were powerful enough to take a passenger train up the Lickey Incline without needing assistance from a banking engine [although there is clearly one depicted here].
"'The Lickey Incline' was painted on site and from a photograph taken by Patrick Whitehouse. The two children depicted in the lower left corner are Whitehouse’s son and daughter.
This picture also featured on the 1974 Hornby model railway catalog.
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Yes ,in a DVD of the Flying Scotman 4472 , Cuneo is filmed on the Forth Rail bridge sketching the loco with its train, it was a special arrangement and obviously meant delays to any other services each way . He returned to his studio to 'paint' the same scene and from what I have read he always went on site first and found the best vantage point to create the scene . He truly was dedicated to the task , most if not all rail painters today use imagery from file in the comfort of a warm studio.
I had that Catalog. Can you find the Mouse I wonder?
ChrisW
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