Bristol - Birmingham-The Lickey Incline

[casperdog]

Hi all, another shortish video of the route i,m building. (about 6 mins)
Starts with 44767 pulling into Bromsgrove and 92134,banker for the day, joining the rear of the train. Then a few clips of the climb to Blackwell.No signals on this part of the route as its a bit too close to where the track is still being laid.
The video is at: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/6647304/17265249

Screenshots of the section of the route from Gloucester to Abbots Wood Junc have now been added to my fotopic gallery at
http://clivesgallery.fotopic.net if anyone's interested.

15 miles to go

Thanks to the builders of the excellent locos and coaches used in this video.
Merry xmas,
Clive

[jbilton]

Hi Clive

Looks great.

Cheers
Jon

[slp619420]

I like the Bristol to Bath run, is this steam era or Diesel era?

[casperdog]

Hi, the route is meant to be loosely set in the 60's when steam and diesel ran together and moderisation was happening.
The track and signalling plans were kindly sent to me by Simon barnes and show the layouts from the 30's and i've changed history a bit so there has been none of the station closures that happened at the end of the 2nd world war and the Beeching cuts never came about. It would have been a pretty boring A-B route if i tried truly modern era.
Coming modernisation means Bristol and the WR lines are colour signalled, the midland lines are semaphores and from Barnt Green to Birmingham it will be colour lights and catenary posts erected ready for electrification. New Street will be the concrete one as i never saw the original and would find it pretty hard to model a decent representation.
Cheers,Clive