LNER Class U1
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The London and North Eastern Railway Class U1 was a solitary 2-8-0+0-8-2 Garratt locomotive designed for banking coal trains over the Worsborough Bank, a steeply graded line in South Yorkshire and par
No. 2395, in photographic grey, in 1925
No. 69999 on the Lickey Incline 1949
Lickey Incline
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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 for a continuous distance of two miles. Constructed
LNER Class U1
…retained its cab-side plate bearing its original number throughout its life. The 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, in 1955. These trials were unsuccessful, and so the locomotive was withdrawn in…
An LMS Jubilee Class working hard to ascend the Lickey at about 10 mph (16 km/h) with the steam from the assisting banking engine seen at the back
1 in 37 Gradient post shows drivers the summit of Lickey Bank
Up express in 1948
BR 9F banker near the summit approaching Blackwell in 1957