The year saw the first ever Rush Hour weekend which was hosted over the May bank holiday weekends (later such events were moved to the Easter period and discontinued after 2019), as well as spooky Hop-Tu-Naa trains and the station renamed in December becoming Tinseltown when, for the first time ever, the Santa Trains called at the station.  April saw photographic using the station with No.10 G.H. Wood and a mixed train posed in the goods yard as well as performing run-pasts within station limits.