London Transport

L92 is a visiting engine at the Kent & East Sussex and I was really pleased to get this shot. 

I was due to have a check-up at the surgery this morning but when I got in the car I found that I couldn't turn the steering wheel. I managed to get a little way up the lane but it wasn't getting any better so I pulled over and gave Tony a ring (I also rang to cancel the appointment - a little courtesy which the receptionist suggested that many do not extend when they can't make an appointment). Obviously I thought that this was likely to be an expensive problem but Tony found a loose plug (or something) and everything was sorted - phew!

Then it was tricky leaving the house because of the Test match. Anyone interested in cricket will know that this morning was a blistering session in which England skittled  Australia out for 60; another compelling game and hard to leave. In the end I took my DAB wireless with me and it was on the passenger seat as I set out to do some errands and find blippage for you.

I last saw this engine some hundreds of miles away - it was at Buckfastleigh when I visited the South Devon a couple of years ago. I've also seen it on a low-loader on the M25. It was built in 1929 by GWR and was used on the Metropolitan Line by London Transport from 1956 until 1971 - it didn't pull passenger trains but was used by the works department. Today it was one of very few engines with any connection to the London underground which was actually moving............