London artist and musician, Steve Wyse now lives in Ramsgate on the east Kent coast. Steve is a professional graphic designer who has created a wealth of print and internet material for companies as diverse as Pepsi, Disney and Sky BSB plus designs over 70 DVD and CD covers for artists both great and small.
An ex LB&SCR B4X 4-4-0 passes under the bridge carrying the North Downs Way near Redhill, Surrey with a London Victoria to Brighton express train in 1925.
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Grove Ferry & Upstreet station half way between Ramsgate and Canterbury in Kent. The station closed in January 1966, with the rope hauled wooden ferry being replaced in 1970 by a modern concrete bridge.
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London Victoria station in 1947. The Night Ferry awaits departure from platform 2 with its train of Wagons-Lits luxury sleeping cars. The final departure of the Night Ferry was on October 31st 1980.
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Inspired by the Southern Railway poster of 1933 'Summer Comes Soonest In The South'. King Arthur class loco heads a train along the LSWR main line c1935 bound for Exeter and beyond. The car is an Austin 7
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A Great Western Railway 'Iron Duke' class broad gauge locomotive rounds the curve by sea wall at Teignmouth with a London bound train in the 1880s.
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The 20th Century Limited was an express passenger train on the New York Central Railroad. It ran from Chicago LaSalle Street station to New York Grand Central.
The train is seen leaving LaSalle Street in the late thirties headed by a streamlined 'Dreyfuss Hudson' 4-6-4.
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A Southern Railway Maunsell Schools class loco, No.925 'Cheltenham', leaves Mountfield tunnel on the Hastings to Tonbridge mainline in 1938.
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Gresley A3 pacific No.60103 Flying Scotsman climbs Holloway Bank with the London Kings Cross to Newcastle (Tyne Commissioners Quay) boat train in 1955.
'The Norseman' first ran in 1947 and continued until 1966.
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The cab road alongside platform 2 of Edinburgh Princes Street station circa 1935. Passengers arriving on a train from the English capital is greeted by a host of friends, relatives, cabbies and chauffeurs.
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Looking west along platform 3 at Manchester Exchange in 1960, rebuilt Royal Scot class locomotive No.46110 'Grenadier Guardsman' awaits departure with a train to Leeds. Since 1924 platform 3 had formed a continuous link between Exchange and Manchester Victoria station. It was the longest platform in Great Britain at 731 yards.
Manchester Exchange closed to passengers in 1969.
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A Havant to Hayling Island train headed by an ex LBSCR 'Terrier' tank locomotive, crosses Langstone Harbour viaduct on the Hayling Island branch in its final year (1963).
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A London Victoria to Ramsgate train with Maunsell D1 No.470 in charge, heads down grade to Dumpton Park station..
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Britannia pacific No.70004 'William Shakespeare' passes Battersea Power Station with the down Golden Arrow Pullman train in 1955.
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Southern Railway 'King Arthur' class No.778 'Sir Pelleas' leaves London Victoria station and climbs the 1-in-62 Grosvenor bank with a train bound for the Kent coast and the holiday resorts of Margate and Ramsgate.
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Bulleid pacific No.35028 'Clan Line' is seen between Abbots Cliff and Shakespeare Cliff tunnels as it races towards Dover with a boat train in the early 1950s.
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South Eastern & Chatham Railway, Wainwright D-class locomotive No.747, complete with a train of new 'Birdcage' coaching stock, is seen leaving Ramsgate Harbour Station in the spring of 1911 with the 11:55am departure for London Victoria.
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South Eastern & Chatham Railway, Wainwright C-class locomotive No.191 with the stopping train for Ashford, Kent, gets the right-away from Ramsgate Town Station c1908.
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Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway’s Southern Maid is depicted running on the single track between Dungerness and New Romney in 1947, the north bound track being made redundant in WW2. The car waiting by the crossing is an MG Midget.
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Southern Railway, ex South Eastern & Chatham Railway, Wainwright E-class locomotive No.315 has arrived at Dover Priory station from London Victoria. It has travelled via the ex LC&DR route to Chislehurst Junction from where it joined the SER main line to Dover.
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GNR(I) 4-4-0 steam locomotive Number 85 'Merlin' is seen heading north through Malahide station in the late 1950s.
Malahide station lies on the Dublin to Belfast main line 9 miles from Dublin Connolly station.
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Bulleid Battle of Britain class locomotive No. 34070 'Manston' is seen climbing Sole Street bank with the London bound Kentish Belle Pullman service.
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Maunsell 'Schools' class 4-4-0 locomotive No.30924 'Haileybury' about to enter the 788 yard Hastings tunnel as it departs St. Leonards Warrior Square railway station with a train from London Charing Cross in the summer of 1957.
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Ex LS&WR B4 class 0-4-0 tank shunting loco No.30084 takes a goods train from Dover's Western Docks to the Eastern Docks in 1953.
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Rebuilt Bulleid Merchant Navy class pacific No.35025 'Brocklebank Line' nears Salisbury heading the Atlantic Coast Express in the early 1960s.
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Southern Railway 4-4-0 'Schools' class No.30903 'Charterhouse' passes Chelsfield station with a Charing Cross to Hastings express.
The SR 'Schools' class steam locomotive designed by Richard Maunsell for the Southern Railway was one of the finest British steam locomotives and operated mainly in Kent and East Sussex on lines with severe restrictions such as the Tonbridge to Hastings and Chatham to Ramsgate.
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Ex LMS rebuilt Royal Scot class No.46124 'London Scottish Regiment' is seen climbing up the 1 in 88 gradient out of Liverpool Lime Street railway station through the mile and a quarter long Edge Hill cutting in the summer of 1956 with an express bound for London Euston.
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One of only two rebuilt Jubilee class locomotives, No.45735 'Comet' leaves the ex Great Central Railway station, Nottingham Victoria, in the summer of 1964 with a semi-fast train to London Marylebone.
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Deutsche Reichsbahn class 003. The class 003 engines were still on duty at Ulm in 1971. The last survivor, No.003 131, was withdrawn in 1972.
Ex Great Western Railway 4-6-0 Castle class locomotive, 'Penrice Castle', leaves Colwall tunnel with the Hereford to London Paddington 'Cathedrals Express' service in 1963.
Portrait of a Great Western Railway guard circa 1945.
Ex London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Peppercorn Class A1 4-6-2 No. 60136 'Alcazar' awaits departure from London Kings Cross station with an express to Newcastle in 1955.
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Including RailArt.co.uk, Steve has also created websites for fellow artists, including: Philip D Hawkins FGRA, John Austin FGRA, Rob Rowland GRA and The Emotive Locomotive.
Visit the Artwyse website: artwyse.com
