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
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
Norris Locomotive Works
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The Norris Locomotive Works was a steam locomotive manufacturing company based in Philadelphia, that produced nearly one thousand railroad engines between 1832 and 1866. It was the dominant American l
Lickey Incline
…to unfitted freights, specialised banking engines were kept at Bromsgrove shed at the foot of the incline. The first Lickey bankers were the American Norris 4-2-0s Class A Extra locomotives Philadelphia, Boston and William Gwynn delivered in May, June and December 1841 respectively. They met the requirement…
An 1842 advertisement for the Norris Locomotive Works
William Norris, founder of Norris Locomotive Works
The England locomotive, built in America for the British Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
The Tioga leaving the Norris Works in 1848