2. Railways

Carry On Up The Lickey

The Lickey Incline is enshrined in myth and folklore on the Railway, a section of track just two miles long but rises at an eye watering 1 in 37 3/4 in the northerly direction. Bromsgrove station lies right at the bottom of the incline and stopping trains face a hard departure. A banking loco is still a feature here for heavy freight trains. 5/4/2006
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    Virgin Cross Country's longest working is 1S66 0830 Penzance to Dundee. 221106 works this service as it blasts up The Lickey with 3,750hp available for the five vehicles, providing all the underfloor engines are working!
    Another northbound freight heaves itself and its train up the steepest UK pull. 66131 fronts 6E09 0920 Margam to Lackenby empty steel flats. Again no banker is required.
    66057 was the rostered banking loco and now its day is done as there will be no more freights that might require its services. So the loco scurries off to Washwood Heath and its next turn. It is one of several locos fitted with a spot light which shines down onto the coupling.