Hullo fellow NEDS!
Me and a certain character by the name of TicketMan have been out and about today 'Linesiding' on the Lickey Incline, between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green in Wocestershire!
Lickey is a 1 in 37, 2 1/2 miles of pure slog, the steepest sustained climb in the UK!! It has been notorious both through the Steam age, into deiselisation, and the 'modern' era, aswell as Privitiastion!
Heavy Steel/coal trains climbing the bank still require help from a 'banking' locomotive (today, this was 66055's duty)
Because me and TM where bored, free and we wanted to go somewhere 'differant', after a short brainstorming session we came up with Lickey, because.....
1) ....its pretty local 2 both of us, and 2), cus we wanted to do a 'reccy' mission to see what locations/oppertunites/vantage points there were, so we know exactly where 2 go in the summer! And find them we did! After meeting up at Wocester Foregate Street and jumpng on a Cretin 170 to Bromsgrove, we did abit of amatuer map reading and found our way to two perfect 'lineside' spots. One of which being the very popular, yet slightly isolated 'Vigo foot-crossing' about 3/4 up the incline. The 2nd location was about 1/2 way down the incline, closer 2 Bromsgroove!
Both had their advantages/disadvantages, and even though the light was a litte bad at times and the weather..well..pretty ****e really . we had a great day and took some great pics, even though we pretty mush got soaking wet and harassed by a strange, neddish-type gent at Bromsgrove! (it was hilarious, this guy was jabbering on about the 'old days' and then me and TM made a convieniant excuse 2 leave quickly ) Excellent plan you may think, BUT, you shoullda seen the fear in TM's eyes when the guy decided he'd follow us hock: hock: hock: . Luckily, it was short lived, and he soon had 2 go in the opposite direction to us, much to our relief!
A few suprises! 31602 and 31190 light-loco 'up' the bank (buggers came up as we where 'between' locations - hecne my crap picture!), DRS 20305 and 37605 on 6M56 flask (early!) and then 31602 back 'down' light loco later on!!
Here are a few tasters, the rest will be on my fotopic site after i have re-developed it, and im sure TM will get around to putting up his shots eventually! :roll:
DIRTY, DIRTY SHED NED!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope you like them!
Me and a certain character by the name of TicketMan have been out and about today 'Linesiding' on the Lickey Incline, between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green in Wocestershire!
Lickey is a 1 in 37, 2 1/2 miles of pure slog, the steepest sustained climb in the UK!! It has been notorious both through the Steam age, into deiselisation, and the 'modern' era, aswell as Privitiastion!
Heavy Steel/coal trains climbing the bank still require help from a 'banking' locomotive (today, this was 66055's duty)
Because me and TM where bored, free and we wanted to go somewhere 'differant', after a short brainstorming session we came up with Lickey, because.....
1) ....its pretty local 2 both of us, and 2), cus we wanted to do a 'reccy' mission to see what locations/oppertunites/vantage points there were, so we know exactly where 2 go in the summer! And find them we did! After meeting up at Wocester Foregate Street and jumpng on a Cretin 170 to Bromsgrove, we did abit of amatuer map reading and found our way to two perfect 'lineside' spots. One of which being the very popular, yet slightly isolated 'Vigo foot-crossing' about 3/4 up the incline. The 2nd location was about 1/2 way down the incline, closer 2 Bromsgroove!
Both had their advantages/disadvantages, and even though the light was a litte bad at times and the weather..well..pretty ****e really . we had a great day and took some great pics, even though we pretty mush got soaking wet and harassed by a strange, neddish-type gent at Bromsgrove! (it was hilarious, this guy was jabbering on about the 'old days' and then me and TM made a convieniant excuse 2 leave quickly ) Excellent plan you may think, BUT, you shoullda seen the fear in TM's eyes when the guy decided he'd follow us hock: hock: hock: . Luckily, it was short lived, and he soon had 2 go in the opposite direction to us, much to our relief!
A few suprises! 31602 and 31190 light-loco 'up' the bank (buggers came up as we where 'between' locations - hecne my crap picture!), DRS 20305 and 37605 on 6M56 flask (early!) and then 31602 back 'down' light loco later on!!
Here are a few tasters, the rest will be on my fotopic site after i have re-developed it, and im sure TM will get around to putting up his shots eventually! :roll:
DIRTY, DIRTY SHED NED!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope you like them!