The great climbs for steam tours down south are
Martin Mill (Deal to Dover through a forest with very poor grip levels) Hemerdon (Plymouth to Ivybridge), Exeter St Davids to Exeter Central*. and the little known climb Branksome - Poole to Bornemouth.
Many a steam loco come to grief on all of them.
*Vicious vicous that one, has a speed limit at the bottom so no run up, and a sharpe curve to cause maximum drag on the consist.
Plenty on the Settle to Carlisle of course, but good run-ups and minimum congestion means little trouble.
The Infamous Daddy of them all is of course is "The Lickey". Bromsgrove to Birmingham. Used to have banker locos in steam at the bottom, not been a steam tour up there for a few years. Finest sound I ever heard was a Deltic hauling 12 mk1s unbanked up that.
Last edited by: Zero on Sun 28 Jun 26 at 13:03
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