Up freight ascending Lickey Bank
Still in LMS livery, Stanier 8F 2-8-0 No. 8420 (built at Swindon in 1943 and employed on the GWR until 4/47, withdrawn 4/64) is battling up from Bromsgrove with a Class H freight, assisted in rear by the 0-10-0 'Big Bertha'.