1983 ASV Transacord Steam on the Lickey Incline 12" Vinyl LP Train Record
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1983 ASV Transacord Sounds of the Steam Age - 'Steam on the Lickey Incline' 12" Vinyl LP Steam Train Record recorded by Peter Handford. Featuring Steam locomotives at work on the fearsome Lickey Incline in the Summer of 1959.

The Bristol-Birmingham line of the former Midland Railway climbs from Bromsgrove, on a gradient of 1 in 37¾ for slightly over two miles, to the summit of the Lickey Incline at Blackwell Station. Northbound trains, travelling towards Birmingham and needing banking assistance, stopped short of the bottom of the incline, in the yard to the south of Bromsgrove Station. Here in the busy South Yard, flanked on one side by the buildings of Bromsgrove Works, one or more banking engines came on to the rear of the trains to assist them on the climb from Bromsgrove to Blackwell.

From Bromsgrove Station, at the bottom of the incline, the line climbs away under a road bridge then, after crossing another two road bridges and passing through some woods, runs on a low embankment through open fields. About 1 mile below Blackwell Station the line crosses a bridge over a minor road and then enters a cutting, which leads up towards the summit of the incline at Blackwell Station.

SIDE 1

1. At Bromsgrove: a passenger train leaving the South Yard, headed by a Black Five' 4-6-0 and banked by an 0-6-0 PT,  The double-headed Devonian' express leaving the South Yard, banked by three 0-6-0 PT's.

2. On the Incline near Blackwell: a 'Jubilee' 4-6-0 with a passenger train, banked by two 0-6-0 PT's.

3. On the Incline near Blackwell: a '4.F.' class 0-6-0 with a goods train, banked by an 0-6-0 PT.

SIDE 2

1. A passenger train leaving the South Yard, headed by a Standard Class 5' 4-6-0 and banked by an 0-6-0 T and an 0-6-0 PT.

2. On the Incline near Blackwell: a passenger train headed by a Standard Class 5' 4-6-0 and banked by an 0-6-0 PT.

3. On the Incline near Blackwell: a goods train climbing from Bromsgrove, headed by a 'Crab' 2-6-0 and banked by an 0-6-0 PT: a '2.P.' class 4-4-0 heading a passenger train down the gradient as a '9.F.' class 2-10-0 heads another goods train up the gradient, banked by an 0-6-0 PT.


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