Lickey, The Post Office c.1965
Photo ref:
L215009
More about this scene
Lickey village is an unremarkable sort of place, but the name is famous among railway buffs because the two-mile Lickey Incline (between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green) is, almost incredibly, the steepest stretch of mainline railway in Britain. In the days of steam, at least one extra banking engine (often more) was required to push each train up the Lickey. The most famous of the bankers was Big Bertha, which clocked up 800,000 miles on the Lickey between 1920 and 1956. Even in a modern train, the change in gear is obvious as it tackles the incline.
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