The Famous Lickey Incline Photobook
Re live your golden days 'up the bank' with this collection of railway photographs on & around the Lickey Incline in Worcestershire
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Welcome to the LickeyArchive Photobook.

All the major diesel classes past & present aswel as some lesser known classes can be found slogging it out on the Incline here on the LickeyArchive Photobook.

Do you remember the clanking rods and steam filled platforms of the 50s & 60s?

Or maybe its the sound of a primitive first generation diesel climbing the bank with an ambitious load pulling behind thats echoing around the Lickey's in the 1970's and 80's?

Or you just love your modern diesel locomotives of the 1990's onwards?

Well hopefully you'll find your personal memories of days gone by invoked here at the Lickey Archive Photobook aswel as up to date photographs from the present.


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The famous Midland machine in her BR guise, 58100, buffers up to an LNER 'beaver tail' coach to give the leading locomotive some assistance 16th April 1955. Thanks to Craig Oliphant for the extra information.
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    The famous Midland machine in her BR guise, 58100, buffers up to an LNER 'beaver tail' coach to give the leading locomotive some assistance 16th April 1955. Thanks to Craig Oliphant for the extra information.  The 1950's  (24)
    'Big Bertha' was also known as 'Big Emma' by some drivers. Here she's seen lighting up Bromsgrove shed with her powerful headlamp.  1850 - 1950  (20)
    58100, a rare colour picture of her sat at Bromsgrove  The 1950's  (20)
    2290 'Big Bertha' in a filthy state still carrying her Midland Railway livery. Giving a helping hand to mankind's distruction of the ozone layer in the early 1920's  1850 - 1950  (19)
    A written diagram of Midland Fowler 0-10-0  1850 - 1950  (16)
    Gleaming after overhaul in the Derby sunshine. 23/9/1947  1850 - 1950  (16)
    2290 'Big Bertha' at the coaling stage south of Bromsgrove station. Note Garringtons Bridge in the background. c.1920  1850 - 1950  (16)
    Unrecognisable, a Derby Works employee handling her boiler as the process of dismantling is nearly complete.  The 1950's  (15)
    Many passenger trains also required banking at this period.  The 1950's  (14)
    10 A fantastic colour photo of her passing Vigo at the back of a crudely covered freight.  The 1950's  (13)
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    A maroon class 52 'Western' is captured at Barnt Green on a partially fitted freight in 1969. Photograph by Steve Barrack
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