Braintree Station Linocut by Edward Bawden 1960
With the approach of the Bank Holiday weekend, it’s time to think of an excursion, possibly to the sea side, and possibly by train. This print by Edward Bawden shows a diesel railcar about to set off from the ‘up’ platform at Braintree and Bocking, as the station was known in 1960, towards the main line at Witham, from where holidaying travellers could travel onwards to the Essex resorts of Clacton, Frinton, or Walton on the Naze.
Bawden would have been very familiar with the station, since he was born in Braintree, and continued to travel regularly up to London to teach at the Royal College of Art when he lived at Great Bardfield.
Presented by Dennis Andrews in memory of Christopher Whelen