Berney Arms Magnets

Class 37 at Berney Arms

British railways class 37

Class 57 at Berney Arms

Class 37 at Berney Arms

Class 57 at Berney Arms

Class57 at Berney Arms

Class 37 Berney arms

This is the the third of my Berney Arms paintings repainted twenty years after I originally did them. This one shows the walk in winter along the river bank heading East through the less frequented part of the Norfolk Broads towards Great Yarmouth. Berney Arms is still out of sight at this point, but two more derelict windmills greet you as you follow the river. Like any scene in a flat landscape it is dominated by the sky-scape. Painted oil on board 22 inches wide x 18 inches high

The Norfolk Broads is a stubbing place at any time of year - but particularly so in the winter, when afternoon light is short and the place has a lonely deserted feel about it. The area is littered with disused windmills once used to pump water from the land, but now in various states of disrepair, since electronic pumps took over. Most are mere stumps (like the one in the background here), but Berney Arms has been restored. To reach here, there is one train a day that stops at the tiny platform, or you use a boat, or you walk a few miles along the embankment. Besides the windmill, there is a pub - but that is it, for this deserted stretch of the Norfolk Broads. I originally painted this in 1995, but my technique since then has improv...

Berney arms Britain remote railway station

Class 57 at Berney Arms

Class 66 loco at Berney arms

Class 66 rail head treatment train at Berney Arms

Class 37 at remote station Berney arms

Class 37 at Berney Arms

Class 37 at Berney Arms norfolk

Class 66 RHTT at Berney Arms

Class 37 at berney arms