LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Redditch Station: mrred1391

An undated Ordnance Survey map showing how the line curved away south from Redditch towards Alcester. Bob Essery writes, the gradient for down trains was, to use a railwayman's term, against the engine, until you were through the tunnel, when the gradient was down, or with the engine to Salford Priors.

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