 Passive provision was made for the eventual arrival of the heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway in the shape of a third platform face on the "Down" side of the new platform.The works also involved relocating the connection to and from the branch to Long Marston to the Evesham side of the station together with a trailing crossover and laying three new sidings for track machines formerly stabled at Moreton-in-Marsh.The first steam through the new platform 2 took place on 17 September 2011 when GWR steam locomotive 5043 "Earl of Mount Edgcumbe" hauled a Vintage Trains "Cathedrals Express" from to "via" Worcester Shrub Hill and , the first time a steam train had run on the "Up" line for 40 years.