5043 Earl of Mount Edgecumbe on Camden Bank 21st May 2011

[molzips]

Great footage. Regards, John

[rhysicus]

PHWORRRR!!!! Wheelslip or what!!!!! :P

[englischlokfuehrer]

I hope you were legally standing there, also in possesion of a valid personal track safety card. why did you not finish the job off continuing up the bank. ?

[pedanticmongrel]

@englischlokfuehrer yep, it's where i work, I was also on an authorised walking route and position of safety, it's hard to go further up, there are no good vantage points in positions of safety.

[englischlokfuehrer]

@pedanticmongrel So you are based in the 'Hauptbahnhof', eh ! You have probably have passed me without knowing it at some stage

[pedanticmongrel]

@englischlokfuehrer in where? Euston PSB I am based.

[englischlokfuehrer]

@pedanticmongrel Der Hauptbahnhof = Main Station. So you are in the 'OLD' PSB building.

[pedanticmongrel]

@englischlokfuehrer yep, how about yourself?

[englischlokfuehrer]

@pedanticmongrel Read my profile for some clues, it will also tell what I do, btw another clue is in my username.

[pedanticmongrel]

@englischlokfuehrer so your a train manager for virgin trains?

[englischlokfuehrer]

@pedanticmongrel You're getting closer, with the right employer, I am the most important person on the train !

[pedanticmongrel]

@englischlokfuehrer well if you're talking pendolinos the most important person is the one who'll scrap the bloody things! So you're a train guard then.

[englischlokfuehrer]

@pedanticmongrel So you don't like the 390's then ! and incorrect. I did say the most importany person on the train ! try again

[pedanticmongrel]

@englischlokfuehrer the 390's are a retarded solution to the problem of moving passengers on the WCML, reducing passenger capacity is a bad thing. Traditionally the gaurd is the most important person on a train seen as they are in charge of the train, I don't know who you'd regard as most important.

[englischlokfuehrer]

@pedanticmongrel I dont what school of thought you come from or who has clearly brainwashed you into thinking that idea. Perhaps you can tell me who starts the train, who controls it when in motion, who stops it in the right place, because it is not a tin god with a Hornby R900 power controller.

[pedanticmongrel]

@englischlokfuehrer Ahh so you're a driver, so who when you're driving a locomotive and back onto your train is with the train and tells you the tonnage, who inspects the coaches to make sure they are safe before the loco has even arrived, and who when the loco is about to be detached screws on the carriage handbrakes? I'd deffo say traditionally the guard is far more important than the driver. no offence.

[englischlokfuehrer]

@pedanticmongrel BINGO ! Those days of other folk doing the jobs you outline are long since gone, because since 1991 approx with the intro of DVT's and push pull trains that responsibility rests with completley the driver, the guard now merely hands over a sheet of paper with the info on it, even now on 390's the TM only closes doors to give them something to do, The driver is GOD on these trains.

[pedanticmongrel]

@englischlokfuehrer fair enough, the only experience I've had on the train operating side is on the jacobite, and trailing a friend who is a guard on the bluebell. So you're the guy who sit's there reading the paper cancelling the AWS when required. :P

[englischlokfuehrer]

@pedanticmongrel The only paper I read is the consist list ! AND I always have a forward facing seat, how cool is that !

[pedanticmongrel]

@englischlokfuehrer fairly cool I guess, but not as cool as having no seat and being at the controls of a snorting monster! lol. Good to know there is a driver out there not reading the paper, being up signals I see what most drivers get upto!

[englischlokfuehrer]

@pedanticmongrel So you're the Tango man are you?

[pedanticmongrel]

@englischlokfuehrer well anyone who sets foot on the ballast these days has to be full orange.

[60103Henry]

Great Video, Liked! :) I saw her at Carpenders Park :)

[PeterHHodge]

Simply magical! You certainly weren't kidding when you said she was spectacular leaving Euston!

[sirhcsteam]

Excellent shot

[JBTEvans]

Very impressive and great sound! Which station can be seen in the background? Nice catch, thumbs up

[pedanticmongrel]

@JBTEvans London Euston

[mick5eye]

 nice clip m8

[james221909]

good vid mate thats a like i saw that through marston green today