Trainspotters were delighted this week after being treated to sights of rarely seen locomotives this week.
A class 8F locomotive travelled through Lancashire on Wednesday, September 30, while running a private charter operated by West Coast Railways.
Railway enthusiast Harley Reynolds witnessed the iconic locomotive as it steamed through Pleasington heading back to Carnforth.
The 8F class was Britain's principal heavy freight steam locomotive during the Second World War, with 852 examples built between 1935 and 1946.
Lancashire Telegraph camera club member Julie Anne Walton also spotted a Tangmere locomotive pass through Blackburn Railway station.
She said: "I was transported to the golden age of steam today as I captured the Tangmere locomotive, what a beauty!"
34067 Tangmere is a preserved British steam locomotive of the Southern Railway Battle of Britain class, a type of 4-6-2 "Pacific" locomotive.
It was built at Brighton Works in September 1947 and originally carried the number 21C167 before being renumbered 34067 under British Railways.
According to steamlocomotives.org, the locomotive is named after RAF Tangmere, the famous Battle of Britain airfield near Chichester in West Sussex.
Like other members of the Battle of Britain class, it commemorates people, places and squadrons associated with the Battle of Britain.
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