His large frame, raincoat, and hat are familiar. The figure stood outside a railway station is L S Lowry.
The black and white picture is from the 1950s. And it was in 1953 that the artist completed an oil painting of the very same location - Pendlebury Railway Station, on Bolton Road, opposite St Augustine's Church.
The station was about a mile from the artist's home in Station Road, Pendlebury, and he used it regularly to travel into Manchester. The painting, dating from 1953, and called The Railway Platform, featured a line of passengers. The jagged awning that hangs over people on the platform in the painting is a distinctive frieze in yellow brickwork.
