The diminutive station at Shipton only sees a few trains actually stopping for passengers. Bizarrely for a station with such short platforms and on a line where a lot of the services are operated by units, in 2011 one of the calling trains is an HST. On 19 March 2011 43147 pulls away after briefly stopping with the 1P31 07:10 Hereford to Paddington First Great Western service. Unfortunately this once excellent vantage point is now reduced to this very head on viewpoint.