Your favourite train!

If I had to pick a favourite steam engine, I've always liked the War Departmrnts austerity class 2-8-0

Is this picture actually dated from WWII? The reason I ask is that sure looks like a nuclear power plants cooling tower in the background.

I don't know the date but I'm pretty sure it will be a cooling tower from a coal power station, we don't have many nuclear powerstations in the UK and those we have were built in the 60's when the power industry was nationalised (under the CEGB - central electricity generating board) you can even see some stacks to the right of the cooling tower, it looks a little like battersea powerstation (in London)