Orient Express spam can

After bitching about the diesel engines pulling the Orient Express Trains yesterday, guess what was waiting for me at Victoria this morning? An enormous great steam engine, complete with puffing smoke and everything!

The driver of my ordinary mainline train got all over-excited about it and felt the need to announce it's presence over the tannoy. The majority ignored him, but I and a Polish gentleman went to have a look, and take pictures.

The engine was Tangmere and is a Battle of Britain class engine apparently. It's definitely large and looks like it could take on an army all by itself. And yet, it was still very, very pretty.

And not at all like the 'spam can' it apparently acquired as a nickname.