GWR Dean Goods 0-6-0 No 2474 with the REC 'South Midlander' rail tour approaching Shipston-on-Stour on 24 April 1955. The sharply curved nature of the branch is shown here, although the Dean Goods locos that were retained at Worcester shed for many years specifically for the branch usually worked tender first towards the terminus at Shipston on Stour.

Photo: D.M.C. Hepburne-Scott / Rail Archive Stephenson