The Class 60s didn't receive the expected number boost when sandite season arrived, so they are still extremely rare to see. Freight of a morning is still sparse on the 2 mile 3% climb of the Lick... (more)

Another morning that I got to enjoy the freight revival in Middle England as another Class 66 gets shoved up the Lickey with a heavy load by classmate 66059. Fourty minutes before this shot was ta... (more)

There has been a recent revival of freight trains climbing the Lickey inlcine, and some of these new flows have been coming up in the morning when the sun is right. You know a train is heavy when ... (more)

Having been hauled by diesel loco from London to Gloucester, and having to temper their disappointment at the unavailability of A1 Tornado, the passnegers get a rousing demonstration of the pinnac... (more)

Since the worldwide economic downturn, freight in the UK has become even harder to find for photographers. Happily, a recent addition on Mondays only from Margam to Kingsbury has been running, for... (more)

MLVs are used extensively across the UK rail network for a variety of jobs, such as clearing railhead contamination. Here a pair of MLV vehicles are seen climbing the Lickey incline, but with only... (more)

The Northern Belle luxury dining train is not normally a visitor to the arduous climb of the Lickey bank and is seen on a gloriously sunny morning making short work with a pair of Class 67s provid... (more)

Unusually a Class 60 has been performing banking duties on the Lickey. Here we see the loco 60063 at the rear of a 1368 tonne steel coil train from Margam to Corby as it nears the summit of the 1i... (more)

After the 170/1 fleet was handed to Central Trains from Midland Mainline it was common to see them working in full Midland Mainline colours of the day. Here a service heads towards Cardiff Central... (more)

Here we see the newest refurbished HST powercar leading the full set of refurbished carriages as they storm up the Lickey bank with the 06:40 Plymouth-Aberdeen service

Another shot of CrossCountry HST climbing the Lickey with the 06:40 service from Plymouth to Aberdeen

170509 is seen slowing climbing the gradient from Bromsgrove after a station call with a service to Birmingham New Street

Since the September timaetable change we finally get a chance to photograph an HST climbing the 1 in 37 gradient from Bromsgrove to Blackwell with the sun in the correct place.

D1015 heads a charter train from Salisbury to Liverpool in connection with the Tall Ships Festival, here attacking the fierce 1 in 37 grade of the Lickey

My luck changed when this freight working of steel rods came up the bank about 25 minutes early, and with the sun heading off the nose very rapidly. The train had slowed dramatically already and t... (more)