This is a lovely small impressionist style painting, in open air, of a suburban railway station. There are many famous paintings of the railway, by Monet and Pissarro especially.
In this painting, I especially like the architectural detail of the station and bridge; the iron railing picked out against the sky has real sparkle. The railway line provided for faster and more convenient communication in a number of ways; the telegraph lines remind us that the railway line was an information super-highway of the 19C.