About the painting:
David writes: "This scene I was part of. My parents and friends have raced up the path from Withies Lane and joined Silver Street under this bridge just before entering the station to catch a Sunday Excursion to Bournemouth in the mid-1950s.
Midsomer Norton South Station would be crowded with daytrippers waiting for the train, so there was ample time to buy tickets and board the train before it departed, but the scene depicts the ladies in the group panicking that the train would leave without them, with the fireman on the loco joyfully tormenting, in the knowledge that his driver and the station staff would leave no-one behind.
The locomotive, a Bulleid 'West Country' Class Pacific
No. 34044 "Woolacombe" had some hard work ahead of it as it
had no pilot-engine to assist in re-starting this heavy train to continue
on the long climb over the Mendips."
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