Bromsgrove Station Bromsgrove Station (entrance from New Road shown above
in August 2003) opened on the Midland Railway's Birmingham to Bristol main line in 1840 and
lies at the foot of the infamous Lickey Incline. Its history is inextricably entwined with
that of the Incline as banking engines to assist trains in their climb used to be stationed
here. Any grandeur once associated with the station is now gone however as it has been
reduced, like so many stations in the area, to an unstaffed halt and all its buiildings and
original lattice-work iron footbridge have been removed.
Above-left we are on the Birmingham platform looking south showing the
modern footbridge and the omnipresent 'bus shelter' on the southbound platform. Above-right
we are again on the Birmingham platform but this time looking up the Lickey Incline towards
Blackwell - the severity of the gradient can clearly be seen in this photograph.