Sundays in the late 1980s brought an increase in loco-hauled activity to the Cotswold Line as inter-regional trains were diverted off the Oxford to Birmingham route. Rather than being an ad-hoc arrangement, this ran throughout the entire currency of the timetable. 47591 passes Aldington on 28 May 1989 with the 07:10 Manchester Piccadilly to Poole service.