The B17 somehow looks at home in this environment.

Despite all the overhead wiring and clutter here at Liverpool Street 61612 " Houghton Hall " makes a pleasing picture , looking well turned out as she emerges into the sunlight before entering the usual gloom of the station itself.
So familiar in and around Liverpool Street during their working lives the class had been intended for service throughout the whole of the Great Eastern network when first introduced in December of 1928 but their three cylinder design had increased their axle weight thereby restricting them to main line duties only , with a number also working on former Great Central express services between Manchester London Road and Marylebone .
The mainstay of Top Link duties between Norwich , Parkestone and the Essex Coast termini to here at Liverpool Street they reigned supreme until being displaced by the " Brtiannias " in 1951.
In the mid ' fifties no less than twenty two " of the seventy " B 17 's " were allocated to Stratford Motive Power Depot , with Colchester coming a close second having fifteen on its books.