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 Forum: Breakdown Cranes Overseas   Topic: Sri Lanka : 1950 Ransomes & Rapier 30t cranes at work

Neil Cameron
Posted: 29 Sep 2012, 18:10 

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A sequence of videos of the above cranes working on a bridge renewal, whether these be classed as engineers or breakdown cranes there is much of interest, and some humour, good films. There are more crane vids to be seen posted by the film maker. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fFn7zB-Hes&featur...

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Gorton Crane, post repaint early-mid 1950's

Neil Cameron
Posted: 12 Aug 2012, 11:15 

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Views: 33748
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67438684@N07/6800600485/ Here's a picture of it in ex BR condition, red buffer beams. In the 1980's repaint we found yellow on buffer beams and, IIRC, a reference in Brownlie to LNER crane livery having yellow buffer beams. I'm puzzled by the tones in the original b&...

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Gorton Crane, post repaint early-mid 1950's

Neil Cameron
Posted: 10 Aug 2012, 20:38 

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The crane looks great in lined black, lion and wheel and embellishments, quite agree Roger! Assuming jib head and return block are in white, what colour would you say are the buffer planks/beams , the lifting beam, the flywheel? Can see it's different to the white mentioned earlier, it looks too lig...

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: Welwyn 1957

Neil Cameron
 Post subject: Welwyn 1957
Posted: 10 Aug 2012, 20:25 

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http://zoom.it/rlES http://zoom.it/I8tZ Ben Brooksbank collection on Geograph project; a massive collection of railway photos taken over 60 years, made available on The Geograph Project, contains several sets of images such as these His details below., After a bad collision on the ECML south of Welw...

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Gorton Crane, post repaint early-mid 1950's

Neil Cameron
Posted: 27 Jul 2012, 22:35 

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Hi Mick, good to hear, that was 1981 when I was 25. Can I ask for a post on procedure for changing side springs on main carriage, was interested to read of your experience in this area, also balancing them. There will be 2 more sections on steam crane history at Bluebell to post later, the third one...

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Gorton Crane, post repaint early-mid 1950's

Neil Cameron
Posted: 27 Jul 2012, 15:34 

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Views: 33748
Although the crimson lake layer is there, I have to say that lined black is almost certainly the livery shown here, the crimson lake may have preceded it as it was available after the works ceased painting locos that colour..........no colour photos available!

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Gorton Crane, post repaint early-mid 1950's

Neil Cameron
Posted: 27 Jul 2012, 14:52 

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/67438684@N07/7655849730/ Gorton Breakdown Gang pose in front of their repainted and lined out crane. White cab roof? The Gorton Works did this smart job, it was once painted in crimson lake, think this was it. Bert Horridge far left, regular driver of this crane from col...

 Forum: Breakdown Cranes and Recovery Operations on Film   Topic: Sevenoaks 1927

Neil Cameron
 Post subject: Sevenoaks 1927
Posted: 17 May 2012, 16:55 

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Pathe's "South Coast Express Wrecked 1927" shows clear-up at Sevenoaks, clear view of the crane in the middle of this short film. http://www.britishpathe.com/video/south-coast-express-wrecked/query/railway+crane 24 August 1927 - the Sevenoaks railway accident. River class tank locomotive N...

 Forum: Breakdown Cranes and Recovery Operations on Film   Topic: Bridge renewal at Ford, Sussex (River Arun) 1938. 2 cranes

Neil Cameron
Posted: 30 Apr 2012, 18:12 

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http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2872814

Photo, map, other photos nearby of Ford Railway bridge, ref film above.

http://www.myriverarun.com/ARC0509_4_large.jpg

And another view of the bridge and an informative website.

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Crane move

Neil Cameron
 Post subject: Re: Crane move
Posted: 30 Apr 2012, 14:36 

Replies: 5
Views: 19063
The first of many lifts, good luck through the tests and exams, am looking forward to reading of and viewing 1561 and the team's steam crane activities on the Swanage Railway.

http://www.swanagerailway.co.uk/cranes/1561S.pdf
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