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I had to miss last week's Dorset Coast Express to go to a BlackBerry launch, so I wandered along to the footbridge at the end of the street this morning to see what was pulling it out of Victoria, on the way down to the coast and to Weymouth.

As it cam around the curve from Wandsworth I could see the familiar shape of a Gresley A4, streamlined curves and shining blue paint. It was Bittern again, in its current guise as Dominion of New Zealand. This time I moved down the bridge a bit, looking to get a different view of the train - and perhaps glimpse its red driving wheels.



There's something special about an A4 at steam...



And there they are! The red wheels!



Looking at this picture I think I found a good spot, and a good angle that shows off Bittern's streamlined curves, reflections in its shining blue paint finish.



Out from under the footbridge and the locomotive is shrouded by steam and smoke.



And then it was gone, off through the station and down to the coast.

Somewhere in my head there's a small boy, standing on a bridge watching the trains.

• Mon, 14:13: @jonhoneyball @edbott Err, images. No idea why I typed mail.
• Mon, 14:43: So the Office 365 mail migration continues. I think I have found the messages that were blocking the move. Had to write new search queries!
• Mon, 15:06: Living life on the edge case: my largest mail in Outlook was 94MB, @marypcbuk's was 62MB.
• Mon, 15:10: Ooops. Anonymous funds vast multinational business: http://t.co/Q62maQQ
• Mon, 15:12: Awesome. The team I was part of won @ThomasDolby's Floating City game/event. Wonder where the private concert will be?
• Mon, 15:41: This is so true: http://t.co/62RBnHC
• Mon, 16:11: The new Pugwash album is rapidly becoming one my favourite releases of 2011. Ireland's finest?
• Tue, 09:45: Hmm. Now I'm confused. This Office 365 migration seems to have migrated more items that are in my Exchange mailbox.
• Tue, 09:50: Woke up early, so went out and tried a new place to photograph the regular. Tuesday steam train. Got some good shots of Bittern as a result.
• Tue, 10:13: Well that was disconcerting. Strange noise from my PC. Seemed to be the processor fan cable rubbing on the fan.

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