On the sea wall at Dawlish
On the old Great Western route to Plymouth and beyond the line from Exeter hugs the Exe estuary and then the coast from Starcross to Teignmouth where it starts inland again along the riverbank of the Teign to Newton Abbott. It is a stunning piece of railway line with red cliffs on one side and the sea on the other and because the servere curvature imposes a speed limit of about 40mph in places it gives the passenger enough time to admire the scenery.
Here an ex-GWR Hall 4.6.0 “Dumbleton Hall” threads its way along the sea wall at Dawlish with a Exeter-Plymouth train on a perfect summer’s day in the 1950s while the strollers take no notice, it being such an everyday sight. Nowadays when the ocassional steam special uses this line hundreds of people will crowd this spot to relive those days, even if it’s raining!
An oil painting like this on board or canvas 20”x30” of your favourite railway subject, British, American or even French, would cost from £1000.
E-mail me on mike@transportartist.co.uk
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Hidemi Tada
really wonderful!!
Richard Veal
Excellent work Mike.
The engine you have here is at the South Devon Railway.
Edward Denyer
Nice one Mike. – Ted
kayork
Love this painting, Mike! Just lovely! :)
Paul Woloschuk
Beautiful work.
My daughter’s just finished a college course at Truro (and will start another at Plymouth shortly) – whenever she travelled back by train, she always says this is the best part of her journey.
Mike Jeffries replied
Thank you, Paul, my daughter went to Plymouth to do Fashion for a couple of years and thence to Brighton for a year or so but she rarely caught the train, it was Dad’s Taxis mainly.