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href="/locationlista.html">Locations</a></li> <li><a href="/locationlistl.html">L</a></li> <li class="active">Lickey Incline</li> </ol> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-3' style='padding-left: 0px;'> <h4>Location type</h4> Place <br> <h4>Name and dates</h4> Lickey Incline<br><br> Opened on the <a href='/companies/B/Birmingham_and_Gloucester_Railway/'>Birmingham and Gloucester Railway</a>.<br> </div> <div class='col-md-6'> <center><div></div><div><a target='enlarge' href='/img/29/689'><img class='lazy' src='/images/29000/29689.jpg' srcset='/images/29000/29689.jpg 800w,/images400/29000/29689.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/29000/29689.jpg 200w' width='30.277839965694%' style='margin: 1px;' title='David Spaven //' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='A Class 56 sweats up the Lickey Incline with a chemicals train from Baglan Bay in the late 1980s. '></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/62/669'><img class='lazy' src='/images/62000/62669.jpg' srcset='/images/62000/62669.jpg 800w,/images400/62000/62669.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/62000/62669.jpg 200w' width='32.427544239435%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Mark Bartlett //1972' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='A pair of EE Type 3s, led by 6859, bank a train of unfitted 21T coal hoppers up the Lickey Incline in 1972. The bankers dropped off the train at Blackwell Summit and returned to Bromsgrove for their next task.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/22/554'><img class='lazy' src='/images/22000/22554.jpg' srcset='/images/22000/22554.jpg 800w,/images400/22000/22554.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/22000/22554.jpg 200w' width='32.294615794872%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Mark Bartlett 05/03/1980' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='14 bogie oil tanks, presumably empty, are hauled up the 1:37 Lickey Incline without banking assistance, and the double headed Brush Type 2s sounded tremendous. Leading loco 31130 is now preserved on the Battlefield Railway but 31141 was withdrawn in 1989 and cut up the same year at M C Metals, Glasgow.'></a><br><a target='enlarge' href='/img/46/137'><img class='lazy' src='/images/46000/46137.jpg' srcset='/images/46000/46137.jpg 800w,/images400/46000/46137.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/46000/46137.jpg 200w' width='29.872886585215%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Mark Bartlett 05/03/1980' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='Banked by hard working 37206 and 37210, Brush Type 4 47272 lifts a long train of tank wagons up the Lickey Incline on a very gloomy 5th March 1980. After a succession of number changes the Class 47 served with DRS as 47790, employed on the more glamorous <I>Northern Belle</I> duties See image 49779. '></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/32/733'><img class='lazy' src='/images/32000/32733.jpg' srcset='/images/32000/32733.jpg 800w,/images400/32000/32733.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/32000/32733.jpg 200w' width='33.530791065038%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Mark Bartlett 21/06/1980' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='<I>Peak</I> Class 46 no 46012 drops down the Lickey incline with a passenger train heading for the south west of England in June 1980. This view looks up towards the summit at Blackwell See image 28088.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/49/924'><img class='lazy' src='/images/49000/49924.jpg' srcset='/images/49000/49924.jpg 800w,/images400/49000/49924.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/49000/49924.jpg 200w' width='31.596322349747%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Mark Bartlett 11/09/1980' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='47307 lifts a heavy tank train up the Lickey Incline in 1980, with considerable assistance from two Class 37 banking engines See image 49932. 47307, the former D1788, was a Tinsley loco at this time. It was finally withdrawn in 2002 and cut up at EMR Kingsbury in 2008. '></a><br><a target='enlarge' href='/img/49/932'><img class='lazy' src='/images/49000/49932.jpg' srcset='/images/49000/49932.jpg 800w,/images400/49000/49932.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/49000/49932.jpg 200w' width='95%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Mark Bartlett 11/09/1980' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='Two Lickey bankers, EE Type 3s 37158 and 37204, giving much needed assistance to 47307 and its long train of tank wagons on the 1:37 Lickey Incline in 1980 see image 49924. The summit at Blackwell is alongside the houses that can be seen above the tanks. There the bankers will drop off and return to Bromsgrove. 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