02/06/2026
“Street Art Train” – the latest arrival at Avon Valley Railway 🎨🖌🚂
We are delighted to announce the latest arrival at Bitton Station - ‘Street Art Train’. Bristol artists ‘Inkie’, ‘Jody’ and ‘Cheo’ have been commissioned to spray paint one side of a heritage railway carriage with street art designs of the 1980s - for an up-and-coming short film (yet to be announced). The artwork uses authentic colours available from the same period and feeds into Bristol's well-known history of street art.
Avon Valley Railway has special permission to display ‘Street Art Train’ for visitors to enjoy. The carriage itself is on static display at Bitton Station (Bath Road, BS30 6HD) every day our steam trains operate, and into the foreseeable future – dates available at https://www.avonvalleyrailway.org/
Mark Hill, General Manager of the Avon Valley Railway commented, “We were delighted to host ‘Inkie’, ‘Jody’ and ‘Cheo’ to our station site at Bitton. We identified a suitable carriage – currently awaiting restoration - and to make it available to these well-known and highly respected artists so that they
could apply their designs. Some of the windows received a protective latex covering, thus providing a larger canvass area without any lasting damage to the vehicle.”
⛔ Avon Valley Railway would like to state that that the public SHOULD NOT use this artwork as a ‘green light’ to apply their own street art to the precious and irreplaceable collection of vintage locomotives, carriages, rolling stock and buildings.
