All Aboard for Devil's Bridge (Original)

All Aboard for Devil's Bridge art by Andrew Howat

All Aboard for Devil's Bridge (Original)


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Artist: Andrew Howat
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 14" x 16" (360mm x 400mm)
Date: 1981
Code: HowatSteamLL

This is the unique original Watercolour painting by Andrew Howat.

The Vale of Rheidol Railway is a narrow-gauge heritage railway that runs for 11 miles between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge in the county of Ceredigion, Wales. Until privatisation, it was the sole steam-operated line on the nationalised British Rail network, steam traction having ceased in 1968 on all other parts of the system.

Unlike other railways in the United Kingdom, the Vale of Rheidol Railway has never closed with the exception of wartime and has operated a service for tourists through its life. The railway celebrated its centenary in 2002.

This colourful depiction by Andrew Howat was used as the cover of Look and Learn issue 1008, 4th July 1981.
  • Artist Biography
    Andrew Howat; Hale, UK
    Born in Hale, Cheshire, Howat studied life drawing, anatomy and painting at Manchester School of Art.

    Andrew Howat has contributed a wide variety of work to Look and Learn. In the late 1970s, he was one of the key artists providing features on the rear cover, including the miscellaneous strip 'Strange Facts' and episodes of the 'Land of Legend' and 'Crowning Glory' series.

    After his move to London he worked at a commercial studio before linking up with fellow artists Bob Robins and Gordon Davidson to produce illustrations for magazines and books. The trio often signed their work 'RDH'.

    Howat later worked for various London advertising agencies as well as freelancing as a designer of greetings cards. He continues to design cards featuring landscapes and views of London as well as to paint landscapes in watercolour and pastel around London and Hertfordshire.

    One of his paintings of the Palace of Westminster was used as a Christmas card by the House of Commons in 1999. He currently lives in north London.
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