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somewhere to post art works ( i'm sure others must paint and draw ) i'll start off with one of mine

bury east goods yard 1966 painted in oils

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Nice couple of paintings it must be easy for you doing backscenes.
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When I was a kid I'm sure I had a jigsaw of that picture :) or one very similar!
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Cracking painting Tornado sir! i took the more classical route art wise, nuerotic angst ridden youngman.. college, art college, fine art at leeds met, became an alcoholic, dropped out etc etc, a couple of my old jobbies from way back and one with a tenuous link to railways, which took the form of a doodle while i was working in a call centre a few years back.

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craw607 wrote:Nice couple of paintings it must be easy for you doing backscenes.
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i am planning to do a " how to " later on including very simple techniques !!
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Essex2Visuvesi wrote:When I was a kid I'm sure I had a jigsaw of that picture :) or one very similar!
unless you were a kid last year it will be a simmilar painting this was painted in 2911 from an original photographic slide !
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Terrier wrote:Cracking painting Tornado sir! i took the more classical route art wise, nuerotic angst ridden youngman.. college, art college, fine art at leeds met, became an alcoholic, dropped out etc etc, a couple of my old jobbies from way back and one with a tenuous link to railways, which took the form of a doodle while i was working in a call centre a few years back.

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some nice stuff terrier boat is very dahliesque !!
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The mention of jigsaw -related artwork led me to dig out this from my loft. It is a 1000 piece puzzle of a painting by David Wright, entitled "Summer Showers". (railway art connection!) Not normally my area of expertise, but I have decided to have a dabble.
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nice artwork , it would be blackpool central station a significant event in blackpool central stations life was during an RAF air display around WW2 era (1941) two aircraft hit each other during the display and the wreckage of one landed in the concourse of blackpool central station being a holiday there were 12 killed on the ground aswell as aircrew
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Thanks for viewing and your history of Blackpool Central Station, Tornado. In its heyday (the station no longer exists) it had 14 platforms, reflecting the towns importance has a holiday destination.
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For comparison:
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The jigsaw is now at the "sky" stage, several hundred seemingly identical pieces!
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Roberto wrote:Thanks for viewing and your history of Blackpool Central Station, Tornado. In its heyday (the station no longer exists) it had 14 platforms, reflecting the towns importance has a holiday destination.
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If you were to stand where that photograph was taken today would you be in the Coral Island amusement arcade?

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luckymucklebackit wrote:
Roberto wrote:Thanks for viewing and your history of Blackpool Central Station, Tornado. In its heyday (the station no longer exists) it had 14 platforms, reflecting the towns importance has a holiday destination.
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If you were to stand where that photograph was taken today would you be in the Coral Island amusement arcade?

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pretty much so !! or police station or car park , the track bed is one of the main routes into blackpool as the road to the motorway is built on the tracks old route !!!
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I never realised "jigsawing" was so fiddly! Progress is slow.
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