Network Rail have started extensive clearance work at Wolvercote, in order to reinstate the former down relief line from Oxford to Wolvercote Junction. 43174 passes the work site on the glorious evening of 9 June 2013, as it works the 1W08 17:42 Paddington to Hereford First Great Western service. Since the mid 1980s this viewpoint has progressively been obscured by fast growing trees, until 2012, when clearance work began. A single tree was left, when the council stopped work. Now the view has been opened up completely, also allowing rail passengers a clear view of Port Meadow, on the right. Note how the course of the relief line is some considerable distance from the main running lines.