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The locomotive is painted in right profile at Westbourne Park near Paddington Station, with an embankment, fence, houses and the public house 'The Royal Saxon' in the background. The driver and fireman stand on the footplate. The painting is after a photograph, which was probably taken in the early 1880s, possibly by R. H. Bleasdale. Signed and dated at bottom right. Framed and glazed.

National Railway Museum

York

Title

Great Western Railway 4–2–2 Locomotive 'Lord of the Isles'

Date

1907

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 64.2 x W 94.8 cm

Accession number

1975-8507

Acquisition method

obtained as a result of a direct claim of redundant material from the nationalised railway, 1952

Work type

Painting

National Railway Museum

Leeman Road, York, North Yorkshire YO26 4XJ England

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