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Please be gentle with me and don't pull this to pieces - my ego is rather fragile just at the moment.

This was my second attempt at painting in oils way back in the 1980s when I had just got an oil painting kit and an easel for the first time in my life. I later went over to acrylics.

The painting depicts London Waterloo station after a heavy rain shower, with Lord Nelson leaving on a Bournemouth train. The scanner has chopped a slice off the picture all the way round, but most of it is there, including the M7 station pilot in the background and the S15 with a West of England headcode on the right.

This was one of the colour slides I found during yesterday's search, so I thought you might as well see it, crude as it is. The original is in my loft, on display (of sorts) with the model railway.

An interesting point is that the Nelsons - all except one - were set up to give eight 'chuffs', not four, to each turn of the driving wheels. You can hear that on the preserved Lord Nelson today, when it is running - I last heard it was under overhaul at the Mid Hants Railway.

Description
Please be gentle with me and don't pull this to pieces - my ego is rather fragile just at the moment.

This was my second attempt at painting in oils way back in the 1980s when I had just got an oil painting kit and an easel for the first time in my life. I later went over to acrylics.

The painting depicts London Waterloo station after a heavy rain shower, with Lord Nelson leaving on a Bournemouth train. The scanner has chopped a slice off the picture all the way round, but most of it is there, including the M7 station pilot in the background and the S15 with a West of England headcode on the right.

This was one of the colour slides I found during yesterday's search, so I thought you might as well see it, crude as it is. The original is in my loft, on display (of sorts) with the model railway.

An interesting point is that the Nelsons - all except one - were set up to give eight 'chuffs', not four, to each turn of the driving wheels. You can hear that on the preserved Lord Nelson today, when it is running - I last heard it was under overhaul at the Mid Hants Railway.