Although they were the diesel successor to the GWR 57xx 0-6-0PTs, the Class 14 diesel hydraulics did not normally work branch passenger trains, except on a very few rare occasions. However, in a 'what might have been' scene, D9551 passes Eardington on 1 October 2022 with the 13:40 Bridgnorth to Hampton Loade local service, during the Severn Valley Railway's Diesel Gala.