Chitty-chitty-bang-bang

Lovely weather so I went to the coast. The traffic was lumpy in places but I avoided the motorway so I wasn't on any of the recent news items showing the dreadful queues to get to the tunnel or the ferries at Dover.

I ended up at Dungeness station for a cup of tea in the sun and to grab some blipfodder.

I'm sure that you've all got the connection between the image and the title? No? Okay, I'll explain.

This engine was ordered by Count Louis Zborowski before the railway was built; in fact he ordered two engines. The Count planned to build a railway with a friend,  Captain Jack Howey and when he ordered the engines they hadn't agreed a site for the railway. They were both very wealthy men who raced cars. Zborowski was killed in a racing accident before the RH&DR was built but Howey continued with the plan and the first stretch opened in 1927. 

Zborowski referred to his racing cars as chitty-bang-bangs. A young schoolboy saw the Count race and knew of the nickname for his cars - when the schoolboy wrote his children's books they featured a flying car called Chitty-chitty-bang-bang, name after the Count's cars. The other books the schoolboy wrote introduced James Bond