Vintage railway footage - Banking the Lickey - 1958 

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!

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

Thanks for this good narration and information.

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!

Awsome😊

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

The golden age of Britain let alone steam 😢

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 😊

What a brilliant film of days gone by

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

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

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

excellent and very informative video 😊

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

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

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.

Thanks for The Railway Roundabout film...

Nice to see Bromsgrove station back then.

Excellent 👍

Excellent..! Thank You 👍

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!

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

Lovely video ..

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

Very interesting. Thank you

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

Cool

wonderful steamy steam days

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.

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

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

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

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It’s interesting to see the outdated technology being used in the 1950s ( lack of automated air brakes).

Is the commentator Raymond Baxter?

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

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