The moon and Venus (also nicknamed "The Evening Star") as seen from the relative safety of my west-facing front garden.
Legend has it that as the very last steam locomotive built for British Railways rolled out of a works shed at the end of a cold February's day in 1960, workers wanted to give it a name when one person looked to the sky and commented on how bright Venus was. The loco was thus named The Evening Star.
The loco in question, a Standard Class 9f 92220, is currently stored in the National Railway Museum in York.
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