The Lickey Incline is crested with ease by modern locomotives such as the Virgin Voyager/ Pendalino or Class 33 High Speed Trains. No, I'm not going to … Charfield Train Crash. The building of a railway line from Birmingham to Gloucester was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1836, the necessary capital to build the line was raised quickly and the railroad was surveyed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1832. Thread starter RichmondCommu; Start date 17 Sep 2019; 1; 2; Next. This problem was more common with Banking engines. The Lickey Incline lies on the route of the Birmingham & Gloucester Railway (B&GR). He joined at a challenging time, when a boiler explosion had caused a fatal accident, and much of his time was spent on putting in controls and standards to prevent future disasters. I was down at the Lickey Incline today and about 3 trains were banked up the incline and after they reached the summit the banking loco rolled back down the incline light engine waiting for …

Also, the fame of 'Big Bertha' seems to grow rather than diminish as the years go by. Joined 8 Jun 2005 Messages 508 Location West Midlands. The Gloucester to Birmingham Line & the Lickey Incline. 92079, successor to 'Big Bertha'. The locomotive involved following the accident 0 comment AN investigation has been launched after a passenger train crashed into a derailed locomotive near Bromsgrove railway station. Some trains still require the assistance of banking (helper) locomotives to ensure that the train reaches the top.

Next Last. Posted on January 12 2010 at 6:16:29 . … Lickey Bankers. Thursday, December 30, 2010. Go. My Great uncle did it whilst driving a Jubilee and a 3F was banking him. The Bromsgrove Society held a day of events to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of the railway engineer credited with saving the Lickey Incline. The locomotive had just travelled from Bescot to Bromsgrove, to act as a banking locomotive required to assist heavy freight trains up the 1 in 37 Lickey incline to the north of the station. Honour for saviour of Lickey Incline. To the top of the Lickey Incline at Blackwell, Worcestershire, with banker at rear of an ascending freight, View northward, towards Blackwell and Birmingham; ex-Midland Birmingham - Bristol main line. 7 The Lickey Incline .

volcanic eruptions from a double headed working up the famous Lickey Incline just south of Birmingham on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway. It derailed as it ran through the buffers at the end of the siding adjacent to the mainline, and stopped with its front left corner foul of northbound trains. The Department was based at Bromsgove, at the bottom of the steep Lickey Incline. The Lickey Incline is the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in Great Britain and is situated south of Birmingham. UPDATE: I know who the two doctors are. Steam locomotives did not cope so well and successful passage was only assured by the use of banking locomotives or double-heading. The climb is a gradient of 1-in-37.7 (2.65%) for a continuous distance of two miles (3.2 km). Here it is near the top of the two-mile 1-in-37 bank from Bromsgrove, with Blackwell in sight. Big Bertha and the Lickey Incline Living within a couple of miles of the Lickey Incline means that I'm well aware of the continued interest in this section of the rail network. At 4.28am on Saturday, October 13, 1928, the Leeds to Bristol night mail crashed under the road bridge at Charfield Station, some 20 miles south of … The Lickey Incline, south of Birmingham, is the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in Great Britain.The climb is a gradient of 1 in 37.7 (2.65% or 26.5‰ or 1.52°) for a continuous distance of two miles (3.2 km).