Lickey Incline station?

[ole man]

Whilst flicking through my Railways of Great Britain atlas, i noticed just south of the long closed Blackwell there was a station named Top of Lickey Incline Station that opened in 1841, it doesn't give a closing date, i imagine it must of closed before Blackwell (1966).

Does anybody have any information on this station and when it closed?

 

[The Planner]

The station house is still there at the top of the hill I think.

 

[flymo]

Looking at the Bradshaws 1922 timetable there is nothing shown between Blackwell and Bromsgrove. Not sure if that is of any use?

 

[Wyvern]

Butt lists a station called Top of Lickey Incline opening November 1841 but no closure date.

Just for inerest there was another two. ONe was called Incline Top opened 1861 on the Noth Eastern closed in 1929, and another on the Trent Valley opened in 1846 and renamed TOp of Incline in 1849,reamed back in ??? then closed in 1857. Also one called Brendon Hill on the West Somerset Mineral Railway opened 1865 and closed in 1898, and also known as Raleigh's Cross or Top of Incline.

Given the dates, I'm wondering whether they were built in places where initially cable haulage was considered. The Lickey also a station at the bottom - Bromsgrove - I wonder if the other lines also have them.

The proposals for the lines would have been at the the time when George Stephenson averred that 1 in 100 was the max for adhesion working. Even Brunel initially considered cable haulage for Box Tunnel.

The Lickey Incline was a pretty adventurous piece of engineering on the part of Captain Moorsom and only came about because the Brirmingham and Gloucester Railway was built on a shoestring.