7. Leg 7, Birmingham Moor Street-Droitwich (30mi)

In retrospect, this leg of our tour of the West Midlands should be described as heading into the dragon's den! After making the short walk from Birmingham's New Street to Moor Street station we could immediately see that there were problems with services south of Birmingham towards Kidderminster but exactly where and what the issues were was not being made clear to passengers. The internet provided no further information but did indicate that the problem should be cleared by 16.00 so we made the decision to head that way rather than the alternative plan B that of heading to Stratford-on-Avon and Leamington; as it turned out, this was the wrong choice!