21st November 2020, 16:39
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pre65
I presume the loco was a banker on the Lickey incline ?
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Yes Philip, it says in the RAIB report that:
"The locomotive had just arrived in the siding and was to act as a ‘banking’ locomotive, assisting heavy freight trains up the 1 in 37 Lickey incline, to the north of Bromsgrove station."
The full report is here:
https://assets.publishing.service.go...Bromsgrove.pdf
Tony
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