"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.
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.
ReplyDeleteI had that Catalog. Can you find the Mouse I wonder?
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