A trainspotter has had a lucky escape after a near miss with a speeding express train travelling at around 70 miles per hour.The terrifying near-miss with a speeding train was caught on video. The man was filming the Oliver Cromwell steam train in Thurston Suffolk unaware that he’s about to have a brush with death.

A huge billow of smoke obscured the speeding train rattling towards him. The driver honks his horn and there were cries from a bystander as it misses him by inches. A fellow trainspotter, filming in the opposite direction, caught the man on camera who looked visibly dazed once the train had gone by and he realised just how close he came to death.