47727 & 350233 Long Marston 24 August 2026

It's not often that a train stops in exactly the right spot to be photographed. 47727 Caisteal Dhun Eideann / Edinburgh Castle waits at Long Marston on 24 August 2026 for the man with the single line token to Honeybourne. It is working the 5Q22 12:34 Long Marston to Northampton Electric Maintenance Depot, conveying EMU 350233. It was a good job that I had arrived in plenty of time for this, as instead of 12:34, it left at 11:16, 78 minutes early! As expected, this was not reported on Realtime Trains, but I was surprised to see that when the train was eventually reported passing Evesham, the departure time from Long Marston was incorrectly reported as 12:34. You can't believe everything on Realtime Trains!