Lickey Incline

Lickey Incline

The Lickey Iincline is on the Ex Midland Railway Main Line from Birmingham to Bristol. The Clime is relativley Short at only two Miles, but the grade is at 1 in 37 from Bromsgrove to Blackwell. The bank was so suverier that the MR had to build a special loco to bank trains up the clime this 0-10-0 better known as Big Bertha spent it whole life working on Incline before withdrawel in the late 1950's. It was replaced by a Standard 9F 92079 which worked on the line until 1965 when it was withdrawen and replaced by diesels.

Big Bertha wasn't the only loco working the bank. many Jinty or LMS 3F worked on the bank as well and when the Western Region inherted the line a number of Ex GWR 94XX Pannier tanks also joined the Jinties. Another loco that appered on the incline for a short time in the late 40's and Early 50's was 69999 the Ex LNER U1 2-8-0+0-8-2 Garrett which is still today the most powerful locomotive to be used on the Railways in Britian with more than 79,000 Ib of tractive effort.


This layout is set out with accurate gradient and mesured lenght of the clime. The stations of Bromsgrove and Blackwell a as accurate as could get them and the road layout is close to accurate as well.


It is short layout with loops at either end to allow you to run back and forth. There are also portals at either end so AI trains can be run.

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Lickey Incline
• config.txt 26.57KB
• mapfile.bmk 330 bytes
• mapfile.gnd 1.17MB
• mapfile.obs 84.15KB
• mapfile.trk 288.28KB
• screenshot1989.jpg 14.21KB