Strange bedfellows who have led to railway art documentary
May 11, 2021
3 minutes
By Geoff Courtney
JAMES NORDEN
NICK CRANE
RAILWAYS and art are the unlikeliest of bedfellows. The former is a pragmatic, intense, busy, noisy, crowded, multi-disciplined industry, while art is a thing of beauty, the product of talented souls often working alone in a small studio.
Yet bedfellows they are, and have been for more than a century, initially in the form of posters and subsequently with the arrival of carriage prints, which brought to the travelling
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