The Midland Railway Study Centre Assemblage Trails

THE MIDLAND RAILWAY ASSEMBLAGE TRAILS
"The Enthusiast's Trail"
Stop Four: C.Hamilton Ellis painting

Continue ahead, following the wall to the picture racking at the end of Wood...

An oil painting in a gold frame. A Midland Railway engine in its Crimson Lake livery is steaming through the scene with a signal and featuring prominently and a goods train in the background

Stop 4

Where: D10 (picture rack No.2)

What: C. Hamilton Ellis original painting

Material: Framed oil painting on board

Why: Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis (1909-1987) was always referred-to with his first name as an initial. He was an exceptionally well regarded artist and was prolific in his railway subjects. Perhaps most notably he was responsible for a series of early railway themed paintings which adorned countless carriage compartments on British Railways, as illustrated below. He was also a noted author with over 30 books to his name, mostly on railway history. We are exceptionally proud to have this original oil painting by Ellis which shows a Midland Up Express passing Dore, just south of Sheffield. The only known use of this painting was to adorn the cover of Ellis’s seminal 1953 work The Midland Railway

Ref: RFB32309

Five of Ellis's 'carriage prints' mounted verticaly in a frame: Travel in 1835: Leicester and Swannington Railway train hauled by Samson, the first locomotive in the world to be fitted with a whistle, then known as a steam trumpet. Travel in 1840: Old station at Derby, North Midland Railway. Travel in 1880: Midland Railway Express, with Pullman Drawing Room Car, on the way to St Pancras. Travel in 1905: Midland Railway Manchester express, headed by the then new compound locomotive 1000, near Millers Dale. Travel in 1915: Electric tram on the Burton and Ashby Light Railways.