Bittern

[ffutures]

One of the advantages of living where I do - heard an odd noise from outside, looked out, and there was Bittern.





It was pulling six or seven carriages out of Paddington Station. I think they do a couple of runs every weekend. More details here. Unfortunately the schedule of runs is out of date and I can't find anything more recent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A4_4464_Bittern

What - you were expecting a bird?

Comments

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Ohh, now that's some steam pr0n. One o the most annoying things about our current financial situation is that we could do our annual Christmas outing on the Western Maryland Scenic RR's steam strain ride.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

There are six main railway tracks and two "underground" (subway) tracks next to my house, in a couple of years another two tracks in the Crossrail tunnel under London will surface more or less opposite. When I was a kid the main lines were all steam trains, with a lot of shunting engines that have now gone since there isn't a goods terminal at Paddington any more. The outside of my house is still sooty...