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Description: | An actual-size representation of a 1930s streamlined locomotive hurtling out of a tunnel with steam billowing from its funnel. The whole sculpture including the steam' is made of 181,754 orange-brown house bricks resting on precast concrete slab floors. The sculpture is hollow and incorporates twenty bat bricks, approved by the Bat Conservation Trust, so that bats can nest inside the sculpture. There is a viewing platform on top of the grassy bank representing the tunnel'. Train can be seen by motorists passing on the nearby A66 Darlington by-pass, which is parallel to it, and by pedestrians who walk round from the front of Morrison's Morton Park supermarket along a specially landscaped path. The largest single sculpture to be built in this country', it was claimed at the time of its unveiling(1) Train is passed by as many as 15,000 motorists on the A66 each day. | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Sculptor: Mach, David | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=7517... | Go to resource |
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