Trains in art

A locomotive or train can play many roles in art, for example: In 1978, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris held the exhibition "Les Temps des Gares" with the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the National Railway Museum in York, and the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.

In 2008, Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery held an exhibition entitled: "Art in the Age of Steam."

The following list is in chronological order, oldest to youngest: In the United Kingdom the Guild of Railway Artists is a group of painters of railway subjects.

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Vor der Vollendung ( Before the Completion ), 1873-1876, by Paul Friedrich Meyerheim
Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare , c. 1877 by Claude Monet