The Lickey Incline, south of Birmingham, is the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in Great Britain. The climb is a gradient of 1 in 37.7 (2...

58100). It was designed by James Anderson for banking duties on the Lickey Incline in Worcestershire (south of Birmingham), England. It became known as...

Street. Barnt Green Lickey Incline Lickey Hills Country Park Cofton Hackett Census 2001 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lickey. grid reference SO999750...

The Lickey Hills (known locally as simply The Lickeys) are a range of hills in Worcestershire, England, 11 miles (18 km) to the south-west of the centre...

2.7% (1 in 37) – Picton- Elevation, New Zealand 2.65% (1 in 37.7) – Lickey Incline, UK 2.6% (1 in 38) – A slope near Halden on Østfold Line, Norway – Ok...

known as an arterial route or line. Its main line incorporated the Lickey Incline 2 miles (3.2 km) of track climbing a 1-in-37 (2.7%) gradient, northbound...

locomotive ran for some time as an oil burner, and was tried out on the Lickey Incline in 1949–1950 and again, after the electrification of its home line,...

to the south of the town. It sits at the foot of the Lickey Incline which is the steepest Incline on the British mainline network meaning most freight...

Worcestershire, England. It is located at the foot of the two-mile Lickey Incline which ascends at a gradient of 1-in-37.7 towards Barnt Green on the...

Worcester via Bromsgrove. The most notable feature on the line is the Lickey Incline, between Barnt Green and Bromsgrove. It is one of two railway routes...

without coupling (as demonstrated in archive films of banking on the Lickey Incline) before applying more power, thus precluding the need for a standing...

several crew members during unsuccessful trials in the early days of the Lickey Incline. William Church, the Surprise's inventor, is mainly remembered for his...

station on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, at the summit of the Lickey Incline, however this closed in 1965. The village has two churches, St Catherine's...

Cardiff and Bristol and from 1964 the class took over work banking on the Lickey Incline with two pairs of locomotives operating in place of the pairs of Hymek...

engines to assist locomotives on the notoriously arduous ascent of the Lickey Incline, replacing the LMS "Jinties" which had formerly carried out the task...

Lickey Hills Country Park is a country park in England. It is 10 miles (16 kilometres) south west of Birmingham and 24 miles (39 kilometres) north east...

order of decreasing steepness: Grade (slope) Hillclimbing (railway) Lickey Incline, steepest British main-line gradient Longest trains Mountain railway...

the Midland Railway in 1919, specifically for use as a banker for the Lickey Incline. The 0-10-0 was not very popular in the United States and North America...

1981. This would have been particularly beneficial for climbing the Lickey Incline between Cheltenham and Birmingham, as many of the early diesels were...

pull the train is uniform. Cable car Funicular railway Grade (slope) Lickey Incline Mountain railway Rack railway Ruling gradient Slope Steepest gradients...

2-8-0 for the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway and the Lickey Banker 0-10-0 for the Lickey Incline. These departed from the Midland's small engine policy...

includes four locomotives capable of banking heavy trains over the Lickey Incline. On these specific locomotives, the knuckle coupler has been modified...

Region for power-unit performance testing, where it was tested up the Lickey Incline on 6 February 1962. Returning to Brush in March 1962, it received cast...

the house of James McConnell, after viewing locomotive trials at the Lickey Incline. Beyer, Richard Peacock, George Selby, Archibald Slate and Edward Humphrys...

On summer Saturdays the sound of holiday special trains climbing the Lickey Incline with their bankers was clearly audible and then shortly afterwards they...

engines. The only exceptions to this were its 0-10-0 banking engine for Lickey Incline on its Bristol-Birmingham line, and the 7F 2-8-0 goods engines built...

similar pattern. In 1861 he built four 0-6-0 banking engines for the Lickey Incline with four-foot drivers instead of the usual five feet. Kirtley's first...

a 1 in 37 gradient, the same as the 3.2 km (2 mi) railway incline called the "Lickey Incline" south of Birmingham.[citation needed] The local paper notes...

Worcester departures are also expected to include steam haulage up Lickey Incline. In May 2012, Vintage Trains ran their first multiday trip called "Castle...

for goods services avoiding the congested and difficult route via the Lickey Incline. It became more important when a line from Stratford on Avon to Broom...