59202 Vale of White Horse passes through the newly completed Ashchurch station with the Pathfinder Tours 1Z45 06:38 Sheffield to Llandrindod Wells 'Central Wales Navigator' railtour on 26 May 1997. The tour was 20 minutes late leaving Sheffield, and had not managed to recover any time at this point, and in fact the late running persisted all day. The station opened the following week, and was built on the site of the much more extensive junction station that closed in 1963.