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 Forum: General Breakdown and Recovery Discussions   Topic: MORPETH 1994

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Re: MORPETH 1994
Posted: 04 Feb 2011, 13:54 

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The new book "modern traction rail mishaps - a pictorial study" by CJ Marsden / CG Perkins (ISBN 978-0-9557887-4-1) £23, shows a black & white image of this incident, but shows a Bedford/Bruff towing one of the "super BG" coaches through the station. Gateshead or Tyneyard Br...

 Forum: Military Breakdown Cranes   Topic: Ransomes and Rapier wartime build BDCs

Roger Cooke
Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 14:25 

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Views: 10921
Chris, A fascinating photo, thanks for posting. It is interesting to note that these military cranes have boiler fittings which appear to match those used on (the later) DS1580 as evidenced by the presence of the safety valves at the rear. The six built immediately before the war for the GWR/SR had ...

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: London Underground cranes

Roger Cooke
Posted: 31 Jan 2011, 16:55 

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Views: 27575
C.604 was built for the Metropolitan Railway in 1925 by Cowans Sheldon (works no. 4475) as a 20-ton capacity crane (MR running no. unknown), but was rebuilt to 30-tons capacity in 1930. Passed into LT stock in 1933, it was renumbered C.604 in 1937 and was eventually scrapped in South Wales in 1965. ...

 Forum: Breakdown Cranes Overseas   Topic: Cranes in Ireland

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Re: Cranes in Ireland
Posted: 28 Jan 2011, 16:11 

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Is it an optical illusion or is there a serious kink at the lower end of the jib in the second photo?

 Forum: General Breakdown and Recovery Discussions   Topic: ROAD RECOVERY VEHICLE

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Re: ROAD RECOVERY VEHICLE
Posted: 27 Jan 2011, 00:00 

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No prob, we aim to please. I was in a bit of a rush when I wrote the last post, so here is some more information: The paper presented to the I.Loc.E by G. S. Bingham "Railway Breakdown Organisation and Equipment in use on the London Transport System" in November 1955 describes these vehicl...

 Forum: General Breakdown and Recovery Discussions   Topic: ROAD RECOVERY VEHICLE

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Re: ROAD RECOVERY VEHICLE
Posted: 26 Jan 2011, 20:12 

Replies: 5
Views: 20619
FXT98 (Fleet No 418J) and its twin FXT97 (Fleet No 417J) were 5-ton "Railway Master Breakdown Tenders" and were new to LT in September 1939, ordered probably as a war precaution. They were AEC Regents built on new STL-type chassis, and they and two earlier vehicles (dating from January 193...

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: Stratford Breakdown

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Re: Stratford Breakdown
Posted: 26 Jan 2011, 00:20 

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Views: 13993
Chris,

Are you still in contact with Robbo? It would be great to encourage him to join the BDCA if you were!

Roger

 Forum: Introduce Yourself   Topic: Introduction - John Cafearo

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Re: Introduction
Posted: 20 Jan 2011, 00:53 

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Welcome, John! Nice to have a large scale modeller on board, and we look forward to seeing some photos of your crane in due course.

Roger

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: Stratford Breakdown

Roger Cooke
 Post subject: Stratford Breakdown
Posted: 18 Jan 2011, 17:06 

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Views: 13993
Reading the posts here, and re-reading WP Robinson's book "From Steam to Stratford" has triggered me to try to track down the dates and allocations etc for Stratford's cranes. There is some confusion in the public records, hopefully we can resolve some of this with the collected knowledge ...

 Forum: Breakdown Cranes and Recovery Operations on Film   Topic: GWR No 2 crane working at Buckfastleigh

Roger Cooke
Posted: 18 Jan 2011, 10:23 

Replies: 2
Views: 13846
Phil, now you mention it I remember that the BBC online archinve is limited to the UK, although I am not sure why. Sorry that your hopes have been dashed. It seems that there are ways to do it, though possibly not straightforward. This article seems helpful:- http://www.articlesbase.com/cable-and-sa...
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