A piece of art depicting the Wiltshire countryside through a train window has been voted as the public’s favourite UK railway-themed artwork.

I saw this item online recently and resonates with a sight well known to me. This particular piece depicts the Westbury White Horse as seen from a passing train window. The location will be roughly aligned with the village of Edington, which again holds some personal resonance as my father is buried in the Priory Church there, very close to the railway line. I have seen the image around from time to time, but have never found out the background of it,

Train Landscape was painted by Eric Ravilious in the 1940s, showing the Westbury White Horse through a third-class train carriage.

His wife Tirzah Garwood made the collage section of the piece, using sections of different watercolours her husband had painted while travelling on trains.

The artwork beat 19 others, including the works of JMW Turner and David Shepherd, in a global Railway 200 poll held to mark two centuries of the modern railway.

The winner was announced earlier, on the anniversary of the birth of the railway pioneer George Stephenson.

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