Relaying the track at Toddington has meant that the yard has become isolated from the rest of the GWR's system - and that includes the 'unloading road': the track that extend out into the car park.  This means that for arrivals and departures, the railway has had to think again! So, with a bit of juggling and bringing the ground surface up to rail level in the yard at Winchcombe, it is possible to load and unload locomotives on to and off of their road transporters although it is a tight squeeze.

The first departure was late August when record-breaking 4-4-0 City of Truro departed first for the Barrow Hill Roundhouse for their gala event and from there to the Severn Valley Railway for a four-week stay.  The locomotive, owned by the National Railway Museum, then moves to the Great Central Railway at Loughborough before returning to the GWR in time for Christmas.

Next away was powerful GWR 0-6-2T no. 5619 which spent a few days at the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway in Wales where it spectacularly performed on this steeply-graded line. It has just been delivered back to Winchcombe by John Antell's transporter which then collected GWR 'small Prairie' no. 5542 for its visit to the Severn Valley Railway's Autumn gala, which takes place over the weekend of 19th-21st September. The loco returns to the GWR on 23rd September when it will be delivered pointing south (it has latterly been pointing north).