A FORMER railway station converted into a tourist attraction will be transported back in time in an exhibition by a landscape and railway artist.

Christopher Ware will be showing his collection of watercolours and prints of the Dales alongside artwork about railways, including a painting to bring steam back to Richmond Station.

Mr Ware will be working at the Station during the first week of the exhibition, Dale and Rail, from Saturday, June 1, to Monday, June 13, painting the building as it was in the day of steam, before it closed completely in 1969.

He said: "I'll be painting alongside my pictures, using the colours, shapes and people of today.

“But in place of the modern cafe and cinema, I'll paint in the trains as they were during the building's previous life.”

Mr Ware, 53, is the country's only full-time professional artist on a steam railway - his studio is in the stationmaster's house at Levisham on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.

He is also well known as a landscape and seascape painter Mr Ware will be working at the Station between 10am and 5pm, and he is also giving three free illustrated talks on Tuesday, June 4 at noon and 7.30pm, and Thursday, June 6 at 2.30pm.

For more information visit www.warehouseart.com and www.richmondstation.com.