With the secondman in the ground frame hut, 37709 slowly negotiates the junction at Honeybourne, as it comes off the Long Marston branch, and joins the Cotswold Line on 11 February 1998 with the 6Z36 Long Marston to Didcot MoD stores. Logically this would then have involved a run round, and the direct route via Moreton-in-Marsh. However, as the trackwork at Honeybourne was at this time in a poor state, these trains travelled via Worcester and Swindon.