Rail passengers are being warned that Worcester’s Shrub Hill station will be busier than usual tomorrow (Saturday March 5).

The Flying Scotsman is due to arrive in the city sometime after 11am and crowds of people are expected to arrive at the station to greet it.

Excitement has built for the visit of the famous steam locomotive after its trip to Worcester, which was originally scheduled for Saturday February 19, was cancelled because of Storm Eunice.

This has prompted West Midlands Railway to warn passengers that Shrub Hill is expected to be busier than usual between 11am and 4.30pm tomorrow.

It said queue systems may be in place during busier times.

Why is the Flying Scotsman coming to Worcester?

Tour operator The Railway Touring Company is running a day trip on steam train The Cotswold Venturer, which is being pulled by the Flying Scotsman.

The trip is described as a scenic rail tour and will take in views of the Cotswolds on its way to Shrub Hill.

>It is due to leave London Paddington at 7.15am and although there is no expected time of arrival on The Railway Touring Company’s website, the cancelled trip in February had been scheduled to arrive in Worcester at 11.20am.

On the way to Worcester it will pick up more passengers from Slough, Reading and Dicot before continuing through Oxford and onto the Cotswold Line at Wolvercote Junction, passing through Finstock, Charlbury and Ascott-under-Wychwood.

Continuing its journey through the Cotswolds, it will pass through Kingham and Moreton-in-Marsh before heading down Honeybourne Bank to Evesham and on to Shrub Hill.

Passengers, who will enjoy fine dining on board, will be given time to explore Worcester before their train departs in the late afternoon.

They will take a different journey back to London Paddington.

At the Abbots Wood Junction it will join the ex-Midland Railway route to Bristol then head south to Cheltenham, joining the Golden Valley route at Standish Junction.

Its return journey will take in the picturesque Stroud Valley and Sapperton Tunnel, through Kemble to Swindon where it will join the ex-Great Western Main Line.