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BROMSGROVE TO GLOUCESTER Including Ashchurch to Great Malvern by Vic Mitchell, Keith Smith
The main route from the bottom of the Lickey Incline to Gloucester is covered in this excellent book. The historical background is provided and the railway, its trains and infrastructure, are shown as it was in the past and with more recent views plus maps of the junctions and stations on the way. The branch from Ashchurch to Great Malvern and Tewkesbury is also covered, with all photographs having detailed informative captions.
(Middleton Press 'Midland Main Lines' Series)
Hawkesworth pannier tanks - when labour was relatively cheap and the BR time and motion people had one assumes not looked at the Lickey Incline operations! Picture and copyright by Richard Postill - excellent photographer with a very good collection of heritage/archive railway pictures from the 1960s
F W Hawkesworth/K J Cooke designed Pannier Tank - not what Cooke wanted but GWR directors decreed that a 'modern ' steam loco could not have a dome! See K.J. Cook: Swindon Steam 1921-51 , Ian Allan 1974. Excellent, informative and readable account of 30 years at Swindon Works and its locomotives and working practices by someone who worked with Collett and Hawkesworth.
Riddles designed British Railways Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 92118 starts to descend the Lickey Incline in the 1960s.
Image copyright 2011, The Steve Jones Collection.
(Originally featured on the now defunct 'OldBuffers' website.)
Stanier 'Black 5' 44981 starts to descend the Lickey Incline in the 1960s.
Image copyright 2011, The Steve Jones Collection.
(Originally featured on the now defunct 'OldBuffers' website.)
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