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Lickey Incline, an Uncommon card
The Lickey Incline, south of Birmingham, is the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in Great Britain.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 121
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 17,000
Power 121 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Lickey Incline quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Lickey Incline card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The climb is a gradient of 1 in 37.7 for a ______ distance of two miles.
Answer
continuous. The climb is a gradient of 1 in 37.7 for a continuous distance of two miles. From the Lickey Incline article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Constructed originally for the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway and opened in ____, it is located on the modern Cross Country Route between Barnt Green and Bromsgrove stations in Worcestershire.
Answer
1840s. Constructed originally for the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway and opened in 1840, it is located on the modern Cross Country Route between Barnt Green and Bromsgrove stations in Worcestershire. From the Lickey Incline article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Taro Daniel. Taro Daniel 73 · Andria 68 · Lickey Incline 65 · Hazardous Materials Identification System 62 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The climb is a gradient of 1 in 37.7 for a continuous distance of two miles.
- Constructed originally for the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway and opened in 1840, it is located on the modern Cross Country Route between Barnt Green and Bromsgrove stations in Worcestershire.
- In earlier times many trains required the assistance of banking locomotives with associated logistical considerations to ensure that the train reached the top, now only the heaviest of freight trains require such assistance.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lickey Incline article was read about 17,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Lickey Incline
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Lickey Incline (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
