The annual Railart exhibition of the Guild of Railway Artists began as usual on Saturday, in the room above the SVR’s Kidderminster station museum. It was opened during the preview event by Steve Davies MBE, director of the AI Locomotive Trust and former head of the NRM. All the steadfast luminaries of the GRA were in attendance and with new pieces to show. The guild’s work continues to be dominated by the triumvirate of Malcolm Root, Philip D Hawkins and John Austin, with admirable long-standing support from Eric Bottomley, Steven Warnes, Peter Annable, Gerald Broom and Rob Rowland, who surely can’t be far off fellowship of the guild, with his distinctive choices of themes and locations to add to consistently high standards of execution. Hats off, too, to David Halliwell, editor of the quarterly journal, the Wheel and Palette, for his insistence in adding the trainspotting generation to his pictures. The post-war railway scene was packed with people at work, plus the army of enthusiasts who were there to fix the life-long memories of their youth that still give so much pleasure today.
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