"Dartmouth Steam Railway The Dartmouth Steam Railway, formerly known as the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, is a heritage railway on the former Great Western Railway branch line between and in Devon, England. Much of the railway's business is from summer tourists from the resorts of Torbay, who travel to Kingswear, where the Dartmouth Passenger Ferry takes them across the River Dart to Dartmouth. The line is owned and operated by Dart Valley Railway plc. This company also owns Dart Pleasure Craft Limited, which operates the Dartmouth Passenger Ferry as well as river and coastal cruises. The railway and connecting"
"Vinci, Hogarth, Holbein, Poussin, Rembrandt, Reynolds, Rubens, Titian, Turner and Van Dyck. Part of the remains of their valuable collection hang at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, where their descendants live. JMW Turner is known to have stayed at Basildon Park and in 1844 he painted ""Rain, Steam and Speed"", showing the GWR and Basildon Railway Bridge, which stands in the valley below the House. The National Trust property of Basildon Park, built by John Carr of York between 1777 and 1783 for Sir Francis Sykes, one of the East India nabobs, is situated between Lower Basildon and Upper Basildon. The"
"of this, No. 3 was named ""Pender"" in his honour. He was a director of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway in the United States, which connected major midwestern cities and stimulated their economies. Pender, Nebraska was named for him. He also amassed a considerable collection of paintings, including some of the works of J. M. W. Turner, including ""Giudecca La Donna Della Salute and San Georgio, a view of Venice."" Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1841 and arguably Turner’s best work, it was sold in 1897 for 1,650 guineas to Donald Currie. A century later it"
"Throughout his career, Turner engaged with issues of urbanism, industry, railroads and steam power. The paddle steamer """"Ariel"""" was formerly called the """"Arrow"""", being built in 1821–1822. In 1837 she was acquired by the Admiralty and renamed """"Ariel"""", and was used as the Dover packet up to 1846. Early critical response to the painting was largely negative, with one critic calling it ""soapsuds and whitewash"". John Ruskin, the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, though, wrote in 1843 in his book ""Modern Painters"" that the painting was ""one of the very grandest statements of sea-motion, mist and light,"
"Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Snow Storm, or Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, (full title: Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the Lead. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the ""Ariel"" left Harwich) is a painting by English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) from 1842. Though panned by many contemporary critics, critic John Ruskin commented in 1843 that it was ""one of the very grandest statements of sea-motion, mist and light, that has ever been put on canvas"". An inscription on the"
"hangs in the National Gallery, London, having been bequeathed to the nation by the artist in 1851. In 2005 it was voted the nation's favourite painting in a poll organised by BBC Radio 4's ""Today"" programme. When Turner came to paint this picture he was at the height of his career, having exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, for 40 years. He was renowned for his highly atmospheric paintings in which he explored the subjects of the weather, the sea and the effects of light. He spent much of his life near the River Thames and did many paintings of"
"at the event, to see it and be moved to increase British anti-slavery efforts. Placed next to the painting were lines from Turner's own untitled poem, written in 1812: The first impression that the painting creates is of an enormous deep-red sunset over a stormy sea, an indication of an approaching typhoon. Upon closer inspection one can discern a ship sailing off into the distance. The masts of the ship are red, matching the blood-red colour of the sky and the sickly copper colour of the water, which serves to blur the lines between various objects in the painting. The"
"on which Turner subsequently sailed was also torpedoed he lost a leg, then spent the remainder of the war in a German prisoner-of-war camp. Turner survived the war, but was one of the 49 people killed in the Hither Green rail crash on Sunday 5 November 1967. At the time of his death, he was living in Staplecross in Sussex. He was survived by his wife and two children. A painting of Turner by Bernard Hailstone is in the Government Art Collection, on display at the Ministry of Defence in London. James Gordon Melville Turner James Gordon Melville Turner GC"
"Grif Teller Griffith Harold ""Grif"" Teller (December 9, 1899 – April 8, 1993) was an artist famous for his paintings for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Teller was born on December 9, 1899 in Newark, New Jersey. Teller attended the Barringer High School until his junior year, when he transferred to the Fawcett School of Industrial Arts. With what started as a temporary job with the Osborne Company, an advertising and color calendar company, towards the end of World War I, Teller was hired permanently after showing the head of Osborne's Designing Department some of his paintings. He was a long-time resident"
"Heritage Lottery Fund, £220,000 from the UK Art Fund, and £30,000 from the Friends and Patrons of the Ashmolean Museum. High Street, Oxford (painting) High Street, Oxford is an oil painting by J. M. W. Turner that was exhibited in 1810. The painting shows a view looking west along the High Street, a major street in central Oxford, England, with University College on the left, All Souls College on the right, and the spires of All Saints Church (now the library of Lincoln College, centre) and St Mary's Church (the University church, centre right). In the distance is the tower"
"in his 1866 painting ""Rainy Season in the Tropics""). The work may also take inspiration from Turner's 1826 view of the Roman Forum. Church designed a gilded frame for the painting, decorated with an eclectic mixture of Middle Eastern motifs, including stars and rosettes, and egg-and-dart and other moldings. The painting was bought by the railway tycoon William H. Osborn, a close friend and supporter of Church, and bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the death of his wife Virginia Reed (Sturges) Osborn in 1902. The Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea is a c. 1877 oil painting by"
"Black, Hawthorn & Co Black, Hawthorn and Company was a steam locomotive manufacturer with a works situated in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK. The Quarry Field Works was opened in 1835 by John and Ralph Coulthard, known as John Coulthard and Son which became R. Coulthard and Company in 1853 when the partnership was dissolved. Their first loco was York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway number 156, a 2-4-0 to the Jenny Lind pattern. There followed more of the same and several 0-6-0 engines. Although the works numbers went up to 100, probably only twenty were new, since the company carried"
"late style of Turner. Turner's tints and shades of colours are painted in different layers of colour, the brushstrokes adding texture to the painting. The colours are monochromatic, only a few shades of grey, green and brown are present, having the same tone of colours. The silvery pale light that surrounds the boat creates a focal point, drawing the viewer into the painting. The smoke from the steamboat spreads out over the sky, creating abstract shapes of the same quality like the waves. Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Snow Storm, or Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth,"
"by the National Gallery. Most of Turner's works eventually moved to the Tate Gallery in the early 20th century, but ""Dido building Carthage"" and ""Sun rising through Vapour"" remain at the National Gallery, shown with the Claudes; a few other selected works by Turner, including ""Rain, Steam and Speed"" and ""The Fighting Temeraire"" remain as examples of English painting at the National Gallery. Dido building Carthage Dido building Carthage, or The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire is an oil on canvas painting by J. M. W. Turner. The painting is one of Turner's most important works, greatly influenced by the"
"subject of the painting, and it has been suggested that the ship stands for the artist himself, with an accomplished and glorious past but now contemplating his mortality. Turner called the work his ""darling"", which may have been due to its beauty, or his identification with the subject. Sir Henry Newbolt wrote later a ballad titled ""The Fighting Temeraire"", describing the same scene: ""And she's fading down the river, But in England's song for ever, She's the Fighting Téméraire."" Turner took some artistic licence with the painting. The ship was known to her crew as ""Saucy"", rather than ""Fighting"" ""Temeraire""."
"of the railroad's own headquarters of Port Clinton. On June 12, 1992 the 425 was painted into its most recognizable appearance with a dark blue paint scheme. Inspired by the Reading Company's own blue painted Pacific, the streamlined Reading Crusader (not, contrary to popular belief, the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Blue Comet), the locomotive's blue made it a distinct stand out. The idea came to Mr. Muller to paint 425 in dark blue by former Reading Company Engineer Charles W. Kachel. The locomotive was a featured guest at the Steamtown National Historic Site Grand Opening in July 1995, and"
"– The Great Western Railway"" (1844). War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet is an oil painting of 1842 by the English Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851). Intended to be a companion piece to Turner's ""Peace. Burial at Sea"", ""War"" is a painting that depicts a moment from Napoleon Bonaparte's exile at Saint Helena. In December 1815, the former Emperor was taken by the British government to the Longwood House, despite its state of disrepair, to live in captivity; during his final years of isolation, Napoleon had fallen into despair. Turner's"
"The Slave Ship The Slave Ship, originally titled Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhoon coming on, is a painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner, first exhibited in 1840. Measuring 35 3/4 x 48 1/4 in. in oil on canvas, it is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In this classic example of a Romantic maritime painting, Turner depicts a ship, visible in the background, sailing through a tumultuous sea of churning water and leaving scattered human forms floating in its wake. J.M.W. Turner was inspired to paint ""The Slave Ship"" in 1840 after reading"
"Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps is an oil on canvas painting by J. M. W. Turner, first exhibited in 1812. Left to the nation in the Turner Bequest, it was acquired by the National Gallery in London in 1856, and is now held by the Tate Gallery. The painting depicts the struggle of Hannibal's soldiers to cross the Maritime Alps in 218BC, opposed by the forces of nature and local tribes. A curving black storm cloud dominates the sky, poised to descend on the soldiers in the"
"subject of paintings by Geoff Hunt. The most famous painting of ""Temeraire"" was made by J. M. W. Turner and titled ""The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up, 1838"". Turner depicts the ""Temeraire"" on her last voyage, towed up the Thames by a small black steam tug as the sun sets (or dawns). In choosing his title Turner created an enduring appellation, as previously she had been known to her crew as the ""saucy"" ""Temeraire"". Turner presented it for exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1839 with an accompanying excerpt, slightly altered, of Thomas Campbell's"
"Francisco in 2015. The painting depicts a paddle steamer caught in a snow storm. This marine painting is showing a Romantic era's painter's depiction of a snowstorm on water at its best, fully developing the bold, daring Romantic fantasy of Turner. Turner was unrivaled in depicting the natural world unmastered by mankind and exploring the effects of the elements and the battle of the forces of the nature. Turner worked first as a watercolorist, and he started to work much later with oils. He later applied the techniques he learned in watercolour onto oil paintings. It is typical of the"
"Day out with Thomas Day Out With Thomas is a trade name, licensed by Mattel (HiT Entertainment formerly) for tourist events that take place on heritage railways and feature one or more engines decorated to look like characters from the classic children's Television Show, Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. The Nene Valley Railway at Peterborough in England was the very first railway in the world to possess a full-scale replica of ""Thomas"". This was an industrial tank engine built by Hudswell Clarke in 1947. It has been nicknamed ""Thomas"" due to its bright blue livery and resemblance to the"
"painting relates that ""The Author was in this Storm on the Night the ""Ariel"" left Harwich"". Turner later recounted a story about the background of the painting: He was 67 years old at the time. Some later commentators doubt the literal truth of this account. Other critics accept Turner's account, and one wrote, ""He empathized completely with the dynamic form of sovereign nature."" This inscription allows us to better understand the scene represented and the confusion of elements. Turner had investigated the interactions between nature and the new technology of steamboats in at least five paintings in the previous decade."
"in trying to industrialise and advance society. Mark Twain said, in ""A Tramp Abroad"", Volume 1, Chapter XXIV: The art critic John Ruskin, who was the first owner of ""The Slave Ship"", wrote, ""If I were reduced to rest Turner's immortality upon any single work, I should choose this."" The painting was the subject of an extended poetic sequence or verse novel by David Dabydeen, ""Turner"" (1994; reissued 2002). The Slave Ship The Slave Ship, originally titled Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhoon coming on, is a painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner, first exhibited in"
"the white and yellow lining), his friend Rheneas was painted vermillion. Sir Handel and Peter Sam retained the colours that they wore when they were named Falcon (blue) and Stuart (green) on the Mid Sodor Railway. Rusty was painted rusted-orange which, according to a Thomas the Tank Engine annual, led to his name. Duncan was painted bright yellow with a black lining. Agnes, Ruth, Lucy, Jemima and Beatrice are based on Talyllyn Railway carriages 1–5. The brake van Cora is based on the Corris Railway brake van that now runs on the Talyllyn. Open coaches Ada, Jane and Mabel were"
"artist Sir David Wilkie who, while on a return voyage from the Far East, died of an illness in 1841. Like its companion piece, ""War"" was painted on a smaller canvas and was exhibited in an octagonal frame design. Together, ""War"" and ""Peace"" contrast the heroic figure that was Napoleon with Wilkie's lonely burial at sea. However, ""War"" fared poorly with critics who questioned Turner's decision to pair it with ""Peace"", widely considered the better of the two pieces. Turner's abstract approach to ""War"" is noted as an early stepping stone toward his more well-received painting ""Rain, Steam and Speed"
"The Fountain of Indolence The Fountain of Indolence is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. First exhibited in 1834, it is now in the collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The painting depicts a scene described in Canto 1 of James Thomson's 1748 poem ""The Castle of Indolence"". Thus easy-rob'd, they to the fountain sped That in the middle of the court up-threw A stream, high spouting from its liquid bed, And falling back again in drizzly dew; There each deep draughts, as deep he thirsted drew; It was a"
"The railway also appears in the 1940 book ""Ember Lane"" by Sheila Kaye-Smith where it is titled the Sussex Border Railway. The Kent & East Sussex Railway is the subject of the poem ""Farmer's Train"" by Hugh Bevan, illustrated by Rowland Emett, and published in ""Punch"" issue dated 3 June 1946. Kent and East Sussex Railway The Kent and East Sussex Railway (K&ESR) refers to both an historical private railway company in Kent and East Sussex in England, as well as a heritage railway currently running on part of the route of the historical company. By the mid nineteenth century,"
"robust class of engine built in Glasgow and sold all over the world. This would explain both his name and his Scottish accent. The steam engines were painted dark green with the letters 'S & M' painted on the side of tanks in yellow with red shading. The carriage stocks were painted tan with black lining. Despite having never appeared in the Thomas & Friends television series, Neil has nevertheless been included in commercial merchandising lines based on the series. The Sodor & Mainland Railway The Sodor & Mainland Railway (1853–1914) was a fictional railway that existed on the Island"
"the painting originated with Constable's honeymoon to Osmington in 1816. The canvas is displayed in the National Gallery; Constable painted a similar (but larger) version entitled ""Osmington Shore"" which was exhibited at the British Institution in 1819. The Weymouth Waterworks Company was established in 1797, and in 1856 the company employed Thomas Hawksley to convert Upper Mill on the Jordan in Sutton Poyntz into a pumping station to supply water to Weymouth. Following the fatal explosion of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS ""Great Eastern"" in 1859, the vessel was towed to the Isle of Portland and Weymouth Waterworks Company purchased the"
"the more well known artist J. M. W. Turner, but his father was known as """"Derbyshire's John Constable"""". Turner met his first wife Rachel Selina (Lina) Burville whilst they were both studying art at West London College of Arts and they married locally in Chelsea in 1892. Turner's father served on the Art Committee of Derby Art Gallery and both his and his son's paintings are included in the city's collection. There are at least seven of his paintings in Derby. Turner lived at various places, including Fulham and Loughton, (Essex), but is best known for his paintings of the"
"High Street, Oxford (painting) High Street, Oxford is an oil painting by J. M. W. Turner that was exhibited in 1810. The painting shows a view looking west along the High Street, a major street in central Oxford, England, with University College on the left, All Souls College on the right, and the spires of All Saints Church (now the library of Lincoln College, centre) and St Mary's Church (the University church, centre right). In the distance is the tower of St Martin's Church (marking the centre of Oxford, now known as Carfax Tower since the rest of the church"
"The Fighting Temeraire The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner. It was painted in 1838 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839. The 98-gun ship HMS ""Temeraire"" was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The painting depicts HMS ""Temeraire"" being towed by a paddle-wheel steam tug towards its final berth in Rotherhithe in south-east London in 1838 to be broken up for scrap. The painting"