>> 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.
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>> .....and don't forget Big Bertha, the unique Midland Railway ten coupled tender loco. She spent her whole life pushing trains up the Lickey from Bromsgrove from 1919 to 1956. apart from a few experimental runs from Toton to Brent with coal trains and visits to Derby for maintenance. A clear case for preservation in our more enlightened times but her cylinders have been preserved. Photos and even film on-line.
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