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 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Welwyn Garden City

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Re: Welwyn Garden City
Posted: 26 Sep 2016, 09:56 

Replies: 10
Views: 39934
This is all very interesting news and goes to show that an operation which superficially appears very straightforward can actually be anything but.

When I first saw the photos I thought that it would be a simple recovery with MFD gear!

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Colchester 1913

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Re: Colchester 1913
Posted: 02 Sep 2016, 09:05 

Replies: 2
Views: 11943
The design is quite unmistakeable and narrowing it to two is not hard. Identifying which of the two is, I submit, not likely to be possible (there are, as far as i know, no visual identifying features which differentiate between the two). The book "The Wreck of the Cromer Express: The Colcheste...

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: Billingham Bypass 1943

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Re: Billingham Bypass 1943
Posted: 05 Aug 2016, 14:15 

Replies: 3
Views: 17315
Good find, thanks for posting.

Is that a third crane in the right background of the first photo? I can't quite make out the silhouette.

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: East Lancs

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Re: East Lancs
Posted: 17 May 2016, 08:50 

Replies: 1
Views: 9185
Good find, nice to see the 75-tonner doing what it was built for.

I really don't like the colour scheme though!

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: Accident at Connington on 20th September 1966

Roger Cooke
Posted: 26 Apr 2016, 09:24 

Replies: 5
Views: 23010
A photo here shows what appears to be New Englands crane 330110 working at the scene of the December 1961 accident.

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: Accident at Connington on 20th September 1966

Roger Cooke
Posted: 25 Apr 2016, 10:51 

Replies: 5
Views: 23010
Hmm, Connington seems to be a place well worth avoiding by train! I haven't had time to look at them yet, but the Railways Archive has reports for the following:- Accident at Conington North on 1st March 1948 Accident at Conington North on 16th October 1948 Accident at Conington on 15th December 196...

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: Accident at Connington on 20th September 1966

Roger Cooke
Posted: 22 Apr 2016, 13:33 

Replies: 5
Views: 23010
The official report into the accident on 20th September 1966 states that there was no derailment, but the 8th sleeping carriage in the struck train was telescoped into the vehicle in front and in so being was lifted off its bogie. The report states that the Peterborough crane attended to replace the...

 Forum: What's New on the Website?   Topic: Update - 31st January 2016

Roger Cooke
Posted: 02 Feb 2016, 10:50 

Replies: 1
Views: 13451
Thanks, David.

Here are direct links in case they're of help to mobile browsers:-

95222(1)
95222(2)
95222(3)
95222(4)

95224(1)
95224(2)

96200(1)
96200(2)

95207(1)
95207(2)
95207(3)

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More great photos, many thanks to the contributors who kindly let us display them!

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: York Crane Identity

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Re: York Crane Identity
Posted: 20 Jan 2016, 14:50 

Replies: 2
Views: 15181
Pretty sure it will be RS1072/30 aka (331)160. CS 30-ton crane, Order/Works No 7519 for LMS, delivered 22/06/1943, match wagon 770006. Transferred to ER 1954. New to Wakefield, then Sunderland (South Dock), then Hull (Dairycoates), the Hull (Bot Gardens), arriving at York 09/71. Withdrawn 1973, scra...

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: 951515?

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Re: 951515?
Posted: 17 Dec 2015, 19:07 

Replies: 4
Views: 21379
Another outstanding photo! Are there more?

The crane must have been brand new when pictured, given the short time it spent with the LNER and the fact that the bunker/tank hadn't been signwritten yet.
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