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John Keay Art
Lewisham Train Crash 1957 (Original)

Lewisham Train Crash 1957 (Original) by John Keay Art at The Illustration Art Gallery

Ref: KeayCrash (Click for LARGE picture)

Artist: John Keay (biography)
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 7" x 7" (190mm x 185mm)
Date: 1978

This is the unique original Watercolour painting by John Keay.

Tragedy of the Missed Signal. The driver slammed on his emergency vacuum brake, but the train's impetus thrust it 125 metres beyond the signal where it struck a ten coach electric train which had been halted by another signal.

The impact crushed two of the stationary train's coaches and derailed the steam locomotive's tender and leading coach. These crashed into a steel column that was supporting a steel lattice bridge on which ran other tracks.

With a deafening crash, 350 tons of the bridge's girders and deck fell on the wrecked train below.

Original artwork for the illustration on p2 of Look and Learn issue no, 867 (26 August 1978).


Price:  £190.00
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John Keay Art

John Keay Art