My final video of the day filmed at Walsall, but the only one uploaded so far – as it is the most interesting. It was 6Z90 Crewe Basford Hall – Didcot.
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Photos – 68009 at Birmingham Moor Street, 08/03/16
My train was due to leave before the 68, so I took a couple of photos of it. I used the camcorder and the results are good – much better than a frame captured from a video but obviously not as good as photos from a proper camera.
Videos – 66588, 37602, 37605 and 66431 Walsall, 08/03/16
After my brief visit to Northfield I went to Walsall and saw the 37s on the flask train again, along with 2 other freight. 170505 also seen.
View images from camcorder in gallery
Videos – 56098, 37602, 37605 & 66144 at Northfield, 08/03/16
First part of a few hours out, 3 freight trains at Northfield. 323211 and 323217 are also seen. From here I went to Walsall and saw the 37s on the flask train again!
View images from camcorder in gallery
Videos – 7802, 7812 and 34027 Kidderminster, 07/03/16
Had a visit to Kidderminster Railway Museum and also filmed the three locos working trains.
View images from camcorder in gallery (there are 6 in the gallery)
Using a screen capture from camcorder as a photo
I rarely take photos now and concentrate on videos instead. A disadvantage of this is the lack of a quick photo reference to what has been seen. After much thought I am trying to add “photos” taken from the video to my gallery. It is a bit time consuming but I’ll give it a try and see how I progress. You can see how the images look in the gallery:-
Video “photos” January – March 2016
The captions are not complete yet but it will give you an idea as to how it looks. The images aren’t the greatest of quality but look acceptable on smart phones.
I can also create a “search” which will show a set of photos, as an example the ones at:-
Time will tell if I can keep things up to date!!
Videos – 56104, 56081 and 66006, Walsall 04/03/16
The 56s were on a stock move, 5S56 Laira – Kilmarnock. 66006 was working 6V35 Bescot – Avonmouth. Also seen was 153365 on a Walsall to New Street service.
View images from camcorder in gallery
Video – 57312 and 57310 Stourbridge Junction, 04/03/16
Starting at Coventry, the Northern Belle is seen pausing briefly for a crew change before continuing south on a round trip via Oxford back to Coventry and finally to Birmingham International.
View images from camcorder in gallery
56081 at Kings Norton, 03/03/16 – video
I was tempted to see the 56 today. In fact I had to start walking to the station before it had departed from Leicester – but was prepared to head back home if RTT showed it wasn’t running. Fortunately it did run, but that was all I filmed, there is so little freight around these days.
Two months since the last posting here!!
Wow, didn’t realise it has been that long. Hopefully the winter will be ending soon, but progress on the “winter projects” has not been good. Where does the time go to?