800018 accelerates away from Stonehouse station (just out of sight around the corner) with the late running 1L76 12:59 Cheltenham Spa to Paddington GWR service on 8 September 2023. The young tree growing right next to the track in the foreground is bad enough, but what you can't see in this picture are the several full size buddleia bushes growing out of the stonework of the bridge on which I am standing. As Network Rail now has a criminal record, after being fined £6.7m for failures that led to the Carmont HST crash, I suppose we shouldn't be too surprised by this lack of maintenance.