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Ghost Train - full-size replica of 1847 steam engine
Jon Mills was commissioned by Quoin Estates & Developments Ltd to create Ghost Train, an etching-like, 2-dimensional, full-scale replica of the Jenny Lind, an 1837 locomotive. This 1:1 scale sculpture is cantilevered on a steel beam over a Grade 2 listed disused railway bridge in Brighton’s New England Quarter, and is one of the public art
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Ghost Train full-size replica of 1847 steam engine
Jon Mills was commissioned by Quoin Estates & Developments Ltd to create Ghost Train, an etching-like, 2-dimensional, full-scale replica of the Jenny Lind, an 1837 locomotive.
This 1:1 scale sculpture is cantilevered on a steel beam over a Grade 2 listed disused railway bridge in Brighton’s New England Quarter, and is one of the public art features in the city's green corridor walk.
About the Jenny Lind
In 1847 the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway commissioned a new locomotive from the E.B. Wilson works in Leeds. Named the Jenny Lind (after the famous Swedish opera singer of the period), it became the most popular locomotive used on the line.
It was so successful that the name stuck for a whole class and more than 70 were built, including 24 for the Midland railway; at one per week it could be said to be the first locomotive to be mass-produced to a consistent pattern.
