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

Saturday 11th December 2010 saw the re-opening of the old Moor Street Station at Birmingham, ie the re-opening of the terminus platforms.

To mark the occasion, the first train out of the station was a special steam express to London Paddington, "The First Moor Street Express", carrying the nameboard and route codes for the Great Western's "Inter City" steam express of the past. The train was pulled by preserved ex-GWR Castle Class 4-6-0, no 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, owned and run by Vintage Trains Limited at the Birmingham Railway Museum, Tyseley.

The traditional direct route via Bicester was closed for engineering works however, so the train toook the route south to Oxford and Didcot then onto the GWR mainline to Reading and Paddington.

The first shot of the train is at Yarnton just north of Oxford. Next is its run through Reading station with lots of whistling, then I hopped on a fast train to Paddington and we see the train being overtaken as we passed Taplow, in time to get to Paddington to see its arrival on Platform 1.

We then see it departing Paddington in the darkness, and finally passing through Reading again after another high speed dash overtook it near Maidenhead.

There is also footage of its afternoon moves to and from the West Coast Railways base at Southall with the assistance of Class 37 diesel 37706.

Videos and photos taken with my iPhone.

Category:

Travel & Events

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• 5043
• Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
• The First Moor Street Express
• Castle Class
• GWR
• 4-6-0
• The Inter City
• Birmingham
• London Paddington
• Steam Train
• Barry Scrapyard
• Vintage Trains Ltd
• Chiltern Trains

[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

[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 :-)

[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]

@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 :)

[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