Bustling Pictures: Peter Handford's Steam Railway Recordings Volume Ten


The Lickey Incline – On the Birmingham to Bristol Main line of British Railways

 Sounds of Shunting

‘A.3. Pacifics’  – The Class ‘A.3.’ 4-6-2 Locomotives of the Eastern Region British Railways*


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Original Historic Archive Recordings - Recorded 1955-1959.

*Please note that at times the sound quality will be reflective of the age of these recordings


The Lickey Incline – On the Birmingham to Bristol Main line of British Railways

Sitting on what was previously the Midland Railway route of the Birmingham to Bristol line, rising with an approximate gradient of 1 in 37 over a distance of two miles is the Lickey incline from Bromsgrove to Blackwell. For the summit of Blackwell, Bromsgrove station provides banking assistance to trains travelling north towards Birmingham.

1. Whistles at Bromsgrove. Freight train leaving Bromsgrove in December 1955

2. Freight train on the incline near Bromsgrove in December 1955

3. No. 58100 assisting a Passenger train and Freight train in December 1955

4. No. 44226 on Freight train assisted by 8405 and 8400. No. 44580 on Freight train assisted by 8401 in the December of 1956 and January 1957

5. No. 48338 on Freight train assisted by 8401 and 8402 in the December of 1956 and January 1957

6. The Pines Express, near the summit. The Devonian, near the summit in the December of 1956 and January 1957


Sounds of Shunting


7. Wagons passing over the Hump at Nuneaton. Ex L & Y 0-6-0 S.T. shunting in Butler Street Yard, Preston in August 1956

8. Ex G.W.R. 1366 Class 0-6-0 P.T. on Weymouth Quay. Peckett 0-4-0 S.T. at Portland in September 1957

9. On the Southern Region. 30112 at Bournemouth West. 32580 & 31310 at Tonbridge in March 1957 and December 1956

10. Ex Caledonian 0-4-4 T shunting in the yard at Beattock in July 1957

11. On the Eastern Region. 69619 at Cambridge, C.12. at Grantham, 65505 at Ely, 68654 at Hitchin in June/July 1956 and July 1957


‘A.3. Pacifics’  – The Class ‘A.3.’ 4-6-2 Locomotives of the Eastern Region British Railways

Please note that on these recordings all the locomotives are Single Chimney Type.


12. At Peterborough North in September and November of 1958

13. At Stoke Tunnel, near Grantham in June 1957

14. Leaving Durham in May 1957 and March 1959

15. At York Station in March and May of 1957

16. At Hitchin and Redford (South crossing) in August 1956, July 1957, May and December 1958

Playing Time: 76:44 (approx).

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