Licky Incline

[Class 92]

Where is the best place to go to film trains on the Licky Incline? Also how easy is it to get there using Public Transport?

 

[matt]

The best spot is Vigo footcrossing which is off Alcester Road in Burcot. Can't help with public transport. Other decent spot is the fields off Pikes Pool Lane.

 

[Class 92]

I've found Alcester Road on Google maps but cant seem to see any foot crossings?

 

[jp4712]

There was certainly a foot crossing there two or three weeks ago. If you click on the location if you go the Flickr page of the photo below, my camera has a GPS log and the map will show exactly where I was standing when I took the shot.


Cross Country Voyager 221 132 climbs Lickey incline, February 2014 by jp4712, on Flickr

 

[Class 92]

Found it now, I was looking at a different point where the same road goes under the railway line.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Or join the Scouts and go camping at Blackwell Court; did this in summer 1980 - ten days camped literally just below the summit and in those days it was mostly 45s thundering up the incline on passengers ( 37s on freights )...

 

[heart-of-wessex]

Any time I go there I get a train to Bromsgrove and walk. For me takes somewhere under 30 minutes, a more-less simple straight route as you follow the course of the line. Naturally, most of it is uphill, but easier coming back. I found the route on Google Maps by just following the road that goes beside the line.