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 Forum: Technical Matters   Topic: Weight difference

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Re: Weight difference
Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 23:54 

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Diagram Z1007A probably relates to ADRC96719. This was supplied by Cowans Sheldon to the LNER in Feb 1940 but following an accident c. 1968 the original jib was replaced with an all-welded jib with an articulated foot. The crane was converted to Diesel Hydraulic power at Derby Locomotive Works in Au...

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: Derby BR Works and the Crane Repair Shop

Roger Cooke
Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 23:47 

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And let us not forget that the first of the four diesel-mechanical cranes (30-tonner ADRC 96100) still exists and is stored out of use at Carnforth. As this was the very first diesel powered breakdown crane built for a British railway it is surely worthy of preservation! Sadly all my attempts to est...

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: Off The Rails

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Re: Off The Rails
Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 00:05 

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There is also a booklet called Carlisle's Crane Makers. The Cowans Sheldon Story. by an Alan Earnshaw. This is a Nostalgia Road publication ISBN 1-903016-04-5 priced at 9.95 but I think I got mine for less in a sell off some years ago. It gives some history of the firm plus a number of works photos...

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Link to site for sightings and photographs

Roger Cooke
Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 18:25 

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May thanks, Paul, we appreciate it!

Roger

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: Derby BR Works and the Crane Repair Shop

Roger Cooke
Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 17:13 

Replies: 10
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Chris, I have always understood that the impetus came from BR arising from the increasing diffficulty presented by operating steam power machinery in a diesel network infrastructure, but I could be wrong. Incidentally it might be worth noting that the BDCA was given approx 15 pallets of casting patt...

 Forum: Introduce Yourself   Topic: A quick Hello

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Re: A quick Hello
Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 10:11 

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I have a copy of "From Steam To Stratford" but it is a long while since I read it. I will try to dig it out and have a look for the incident you mention. A lucky escape indeed! The published records for crane allocations and movements during more recent times (say from the seventies onward...

 Forum: Breakdown Cranes and Recovery Operations on Film   Topic: Lots of crane footage!

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Lots of crane footage!
Posted: 11 Jan 2011, 14:56 

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Another DVD of interest to the crane enthusiast is "British Steam Railway Disasters 1913 - 1967", currently available from several on-line suppliers including Amazon.co.uk. The title is in fact something of a misnomer since "British Steam-Crane-Era Railway Disasters" would be mor...

 Forum: Breakdown Cranes and Recovery Operations on Film   Topic: British Steam Railways partwork

Roger Cooke
Posted: 11 Jan 2011, 14:38 

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Some years ago there was a partwork produced under the title "British Steam Railways and how they shaped our history". This was a combined magazine plus DVD format produced by D'Agostini and Planet Three Publishing, and I believe that in total there were 96 parts. These quite often come up...

 Forum: Breakdown Cranes and Recovery Operations on Film   Topic: Willesden's 50-ton Craven crane RS1015/50, 1949.

Roger Cooke
Posted: 11 Jan 2011, 11:14 

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The 1949 Ealing Studios classic "Train of Events" includes a fleeting shot of Willesden's 50-ton Craven crane RS1015/50 in steam at (presumably) Willesden MPD, approx 3 minutes into the film. Supplied new to the LMS as 36-ton crane MP9 in 1931 and uprated to a 50-tonner in 1938, this is on...

 Forum: Breakdown Cranes and Recovery Operations on Film   Topic: ADRR95215 working at the Bluebell Railway

Roger Cooke
Posted: 11 Jan 2011, 11:01 

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Views: 7689
The DVD entitled "The Steam Era Number 2 - Blackmore Vale and the Bluebell" produced by Delta Music Plc and widely available on eBay, includes approximately 7 minutes footage of ADRR95215 (originally LNER 951516, later 330122 then RS1083/45 ex-Gorton and Newton Heath) being prepared for us...
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