43176 passes Fiddington on 30 October 2017 with the 5Z74 14:00 Worcester Shrub Hill Long Siding to St Philips Marsh GWR ECS. This was running as a VSTP (Very Short Term Planning) special, and was a definite bonus, as apart from a couple of early morning trains, and a very late evening northbound train, there are not normally any GWR HSTs on this section of line. Also, whereas everything else that passed by on this afternoon (DMUs and Class 66s) will be around for a while, the days of HSTs are numbered (at least in most of England)! |