I'm hoping for good fortune later this evening with the 196s, I'm on a WMDR today for various little missions first. Ideally I'm aiming for the 2000 from Birmingham New Street, connecting onto GWR back to Hereford.
It was going to be a very serious amount of walking today, but the easterly wind is very strong and bitter so I chose a train day!
196005+196006 working the 2000 Birmingham New Street-Worcester Shrub Hill this evening
I'm very pleased about that, taking these all the way to Worcester for a quick Tech's Thriller Filler walk before a GWR back to Hereford. Today was very different to the original plan, and same to the revised plan, but it's worked out rather nicely!