Vintage railway footage - Banking the Lickey - 1958

This vintage railway footage feature operations over the famous Lickey Incline in 1958. This film feature footage of Patrick Whitehouse and his family. Mr Whitehouse was a prominent personality in early British rail preservation.
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[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

As of today Blackwell station is no longer here it’s gone completely and so is the signal box that’s gone too even the goods shed in the background that sat behind the station along with the goods sidings that’s all gone too

[@martyn6792]

What a brilliant film of days gone by

[@brianfoster7794]

I am fortunate enough to remember these glorious sights, sounds, and smells as a child at Blackwell Station in the early 50s, with a couple of friends, the Station staff were always great putting up with us being there, the other upside is that we viewed it in colour not black and white 😂😅, tbh there wasn't much else to do in the area, it was a little cut off. Many thanks for putting the video up. It gave me a large smile and a rush of memories 😊

[@davedavis4269]

The golden age of Britain let alone steam 😢

[@Hoysa62]

Aye..When Britain was Britain, not the stinking hell hole it is now!!

[@petersmith4455]

hi, great video. the clowns should never have got rid of Big Bertha, RIP old girl

[@stuarthall6631]

She was - for a time - earmarked for preservation. After withdrawal, she was stored for some time with her motion heavily greased. It is so sad that she did not actually make it. As you say, R.I.P.

[@johnjephcote7636]

Was that not her headlamp atop the 9F's smokebox?

[@stuarthall6631]

Yes. It was. The headlamp was the only little bit of the 0-10- 0 to survive (at least to this point in time). Does anyone know whether this souvenir has made it to the present? @@johnjephcote7636

[@musclecat1005]

Indeed it was

[@martinmarsola6477]

A fine introduction to the age of this time period. Thank you! 😊🇬🇧👍🇺🇸

[@malcolmabram2957]

Thank you for this video. As a kid I used to spend some holidays, trainspotting with friends on the southern end of the platform of Old Stevenage station (long gone). It was all steam. Remember seeing the last scheduled journey of the Flying Scotsman which always powered through ca 10:35. However, steam gradually gave way to diesel. Lost interest. This video brings back those days. Big time nostalgia.

[@Titan8976]

excellent and very informative video 😊

[@JohnAsmith-rw6uo]

Always look forward to your videos. I enjoy them very much..... Thanks for posting them.

[@artjs9]

Thanks for The Railway Roundabout film...

[@aljonflavin6760]

Thanks for this good narration and information.

[@samaltima6998]

Nice to see Bromsgrove station back then.

[@richardsanders4624]

Excellent..! Thank You 👍

[@1258-Eckhart]

The "up" side of Blackwell went DOWN the Lickey Bank, whilst the "down" side of Bromsgrove went UP the Lickey Bank. 😉😉😉

[@robertmrozek1454]

It's wonderful to see Blackwell signal box and station. The village is considerably bigger now than in 1958 and finds itself on Birmingham's Cross City Line - surely the station is begging to be reinstated!

[@metalman4141]

I’ve heard that Blackwell station is still there in a way, it was demolished and levelled flat into the ground. The land is privately owned now and grass and small trees grow happily upon site .

[@JH-si9oe]

A brilliant bit of local history, thanks for sharing.

[@Play_fare]

I’ve read about this operation in railway magazines but seeing it like this fills in a number of pieces of information missing in the articles. In North America, helper engines were used in various places to compensate for steep grades. How helpers were used could vary according to the grade profile and the types of trains being operated, ie. Passenger trains may not require helpers but most freights would. In some places, practice would be to add the helper at the front of the train, nd in others it would be to the rear. Usually when helpers were used, the train would always be halted, the helper coupled on, then it would proceed. I don’t believe that helpers could be dropped on the fly due to the nature of knuckle coupler. Since North America was an early implementer of air brakes on all equipment, the helper might also be connected to supply additional air brake support on downhill grades.

[@barryhill1044]

Lovely video ..

[@chrisbarnes2823]

Very interesting. Thank you

[@LivoPud]

Subscribed. Great channel. Thank you for sharing such amazing content

[@pn112upfast]

Excellent 👍

[@johnbristow5665]

The record of these sounds uses a painting based on your photo. It proves its teal and not an exaggeration in any way awsome..its steep!

[@amessman]

3:49 - 1 in 37.7 is absurd! No wonder the Lickey Incline is legendary.

[@coloradostrong]

The 2 dislikes are probably from viewers not interested in vintage train vids, so they give a dislike to keep KZbin from sending them more vids like it- not knowing they can just click "Not Interested".

[@grahampearson5670]

Lickey incline is billed as a having a Swiss type gradients in my novelisations.

[@antsblaschke]

... they talk a jargon I don t follow- but somehow its all - m o v i n g , and from a half-life ago

[@geraldmartin2729]

Viewpoints now ruined with 8-feet high fence! Ladder no use with 25kV overhead power cables.

[@nmarks]

If the car had been invented before the train, you have to wonder if the train would ever have been invented at all.

[@donaldtomas4885]

Cool

[@johnbristow5665]

Peter Woods the newsreader must of done more Railway than News. Sureal seeing him at Euston Station on his commuite...Allegedly knew more about the subject than a certain politian who allegedly has everything written down by some one else!

[@keef71]

Was just going to ask if it was Peter Woods, still recognise his voice😊

[@JPLtrain]

Comme pour les plans inclinés de Liège en Belgique,... jplobet, Rail Miniature Mosan Namur

[@Fred-Wilbury]

Kids with no iPhones 😮my granddaughter will be amazed let alone seeing no colour, told her everything was grey then but very happy if you were a kid 😊

[@train4905]

Awsome😊

[@PrinceJohn84]

What are the two signals in quick succession for at 3:56?

[@atraindriver]

@PrinceJohn84 The second will either be a replacement awaiting activation or an old one taken out of use. Either way it should have an X over it, but maybe it had fallen off!

[@arizonalivesteamer9225]

It’s interesting to see the outdated technology being used in the 1950s ( lack of automated air brakes).

[@toucan221]

wonderful steamy steam days

[@JoaquimAntunesdaRocha]

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[@choirboyfromhell1]

Sticking poles in the brake linkage on freight cars....I guess that's "set up retainers" in UK parlance!

[@atraindriver]

It's "pinning the brakes down". Well, it was. Unfitted trains have been banned here for many years.

[@Pikestnt]

Is the commentator Raymond Baxter?

[@tonyhowell9203]

Peter Woods ex- BBC news reader

[@Pikestnt]

Ah yes - Thanks Tony. 👍

[@Isochest]

All indigenous people. No need for immigrants then as now.

[@atraindriver]

At the same time as this video was made, British Railways were (along with London Transport) touring the commonwealth trying to get people to immigrate to "the mother country" and work for them because the indigenous people didn't want the poorly paid and dirty work that the railway offered. Nothing changes; the reason we now have all the immigrants you clearly dislike is because the indigenous people still don't want to do poorly paid and dirty work - so someone has to do it.

[@Isochest]

@@atraindriver I dislike the ones who don't work pray in the road prey on women and children and order us to submit to their cult

[@Gregory_ferrandis]

It’s a video about the lickey incline ne need to get political

[@haystax6289]

Boys a bit close to the edge of the platform at the start of the film even by 1950's standards🫣