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Comment | Why seeing art by train should be the next big thing

Flying to an exhibition is increasingly unjustifiable. But by choosing the train, visitors can enjoy endless, inspiring encounters with art and life

John-Paul Stonard
17 January 2025
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This portrait of “two young women in voluminous dresses” in The Travelling Companions (1862), by the Victorian London artist Augustus Leopold Egg, shows the inspiration of journeying by train in a way that air travel simply cannot

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