5043 "Earl of Mount Edgcumbe" on The First Moor Street Express, 11 Dec 2010

[50050]

where abouts in Yarnton did you film this as i also filmed it at yarnton

[MoiUnMouton]

@50050

I was a two or three hundred hundred yards south of you, in the muddy field on the other side of the line, standing up against the fence - if you look right at the end of your video, I'd just have been coming into shot to the left of the train.

[MoiUnMouton]

@50050

Ooops, I got that wrong. Sorry, I looked again, I think you were at Yarnton Lane, I was in the field at Sandy Lane, so I was in the second field a few hundred yards to the north of you, on the other side of the line

[50050]

@MoiUnMouton

yh i was at yarnton lane, didn't know you could get into the field you was in

[60103Henry]

Great Video, 5 Stars!

[HSTcallum]

Hi mate, right I got the iPhone 4 for Christmas and it is a stunning phone, best one I've ever had! I was just wondering how you get your videos that high quality as I have just directly uploaded a test video to

YouTube from the camera roll (after exporting from the iMovie app in HD) but the quality is nowhere near as good as yours. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks :)

[HSTcallum]

Brilliant vid mate! When you say this vid was taken with your iPhone, was it a 4 or a 3Gs?

[MoiUnMouton]

@HSTcallum

It's a 4. I had a 3GS until September. If you want to see the comparison between the two, check my videos before and since October. The 4 shoots HD 720p in 16-9 aspect, and the 3GS shoots at 480p in 4-3 ratio.

I reckon the better video and camera quality alone make the iPhone 4 worth having. But I sure wish it had image stabilisation, with all the cold days and shivering :-)

[HSTcallum]

@MoiUnMouton lol cheers! I'm only asking as I'm getting a 4 for christmas and the quality is impressing. I hope apple have a software update that features an image stabiliser soon :)

[NN2Blue]

Great Story, well told! Train chasing - you can't beat it! Well you can- having videoed "Tornado" in Northamptonshire in the morning, I had to go to Oxford in the evening. To avoid Xmas traffic drove to Heyford Station. First thing I saw after parking up was E of M E battering north! Totally unplanned and a huge bonus! LOL! Thanks for sharing! Mike

[noelist]

Nice touch the Byrds 'goin back' hoped to hear 'no more electric trains' take it was you on the train, well thought out and executed, really enjoyable vid, and 37's sound great too. thank you very much.

[fouloleron2002]

First class. Nice to see modern TOP's getting involved, perhaps they are not too bad after all.

[KINGANDCASTLE]

Nice video. A very busy day for you?

[MoiUnMouton]

@KINGANDCASTLE Well, yes, pretty much! I planned it in advance and hoped things would go to plan:

1. Getting from Yarnton to Reading and parked up and on the platform in time

2. Hoping they didn't put 5043 on the fast to Paddington so I could overtake it on the way

3. The stopper being on time to Southall - only had 4 mins in hand

Anyway, it all worked out! Getting back to Reading in the evening to see it again was a nice bonus. A full day trainspotting - just like being a kid again :-)

[KINGANDCASTLE]

@MoiUnMouton The old station car park (NCP operated) opp Reading station is much cheaper at the weekend than the new station car park.

Do you get many visitors to nearby Woodstock looking for Bob Dylan?

[MoiUnMouton]

@KINGANDCASTLE

By the time they got to Yarnton they were half a million strong!!

Luckily, they all stayed behind the camera and didn't trespass on the lineside

[sirhcsteam]

Excellent video, good quality from your phone

[letmadnessbegin]

Superb selection of clips there mate, thumbs up

The Earl, looking splendid as always