PS5 Loaded Class 66 Climbing Lickey Incline, Is This Mission Impossible?

Hi there

I'm trying to complete a timetable service from the Birmingham Cross City route where I need to get a loaded aggregates train up the Lickey Incline to King's Norton. Each time I attempt it the train just crawls to a stand part way up the bank and eventually derails. The consist is 2 Class 66 pulling 17 loaded HKA's with a combined weight of 2202.6 tons. My questions are;

Is it possible for the two locomotives to pull that weight up the Lickey Incline?
Do I need to set up the second loco as I am unsure that it is helping?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Kind regards
John

 

Would you have the service ID?

I'll try to reproduce this tonight. That weight shouldn't be any trouble for double heading Class 66s. But the 2nd loco might be not correctly configured and you pull it just as dead weight. Which might explain why you die before the summit.

 

Hi Pipe

The service number is 6M60 Exeter Riverside to Bescot.

Many thanks

 

I've just done this okay.
170 timetable, mine was 1966.5 T, crawling up the Lickey at 13 mph, but got there, in dry weather. 2nd loco seemed to be active.
Qualifies as an 'awesome run' with plenty of adverse signals & red stops. Thankfully not on the incline