Midland Railway Lickey Banker nicknamed "Big Bertha" - one of a kind - was scrapped in 1957. This powerful 0-10-0 tender locomotive, numbered 58100 in British Railways days, was designed specifically to bank trains up the 1 in 38 two-mile incline between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green in Worcestershire. The incline was and is the steepest main line bank in Britain. "Big Bertha" was built at Derby in 1919 to the design of the Midland Railway acting Chief Mechanical Engineer, James Anderson. It had four 16 x 28 inch cylinders, two inside and two outside, driving the 4 feet 71⁄2 inch diameter driving wheels. A large lamp was fitted over the smokebox door to illuminate the rear of the train being banked for safety reasons. It spent its entire working life of 37 years banking the Lickey. It was a hard act to follow, and was replaced at different times by GWR 2-8-0 tank engines, GWR 0-6-0 pannier tank engines, LMS 0-6-0 "Jinty" tank engines, BR Standard 9F 2-10-0 locomotives and, later, diesel locomotives. The image shows "Big Bertha", then numbered 2290, in Midland Railway livery shortly after being built.