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

Neil Cameron
Posted: 29 Apr 2012, 19:56 

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http://youtu.be/JaiyJ7bwgL8 35S Ransomes & Rapier is one of the cranes. This was part of a significant extension of third-rail electrification. Followed by steam freight activity in Worthing area, interesting to me at least as I spent my teenage years there, the infrastructure was there on the v...

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: RS1083/45 to move Kingscote-Horsted Keynes Up yard tomorrow.

Neil Cameron
Posted: 29 Feb 2012, 11:40 

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Roger, For completeness we have the single injector as well. I was hours going through this site, so many gems, started when the site's principal took 70k prints to California to be scanned, more are being added all the time as different collections are gradually fed into the site, a simply astoundi...

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: RS1083/45 to move Kingscote-Horsted Keynes Up yard tomorrow.

Neil Cameron
Posted: 29 Feb 2012, 03:20 

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Hi Roger, Well how fantastic to see these photographs, really great, I've been looking at them for ages. These appear to be a local history collection rather than railway enthusiast, what a useful resource, considering I have never found a picture of the crane on Gorton depot. Such a lift and inspir...

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: RS1083/45 to move Kingscote-Horsted Keynes Up yard tomorrow.

Neil Cameron
Posted: 23 Feb 2012, 19:12 

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Thanks to Bluebell Member Martin Lawrence for a slideshow gallery of the move http://www.riff-raff.org/bluebell/v/Mlawrence/2012-02-21/ When you reach the group photo of 4 in front of crane, from LHS in light blue boiler suit Neil Cameron, Chris Hunford, Paul Russell and Trevor West. Chris is a Blue...

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: RS1083/45 to move Kingscote-Horsted Keynes Up yard tomorrow.

Neil Cameron
Posted: 22 Feb 2012, 17:11 

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Video of the move http://youtu.be/sMkA0w4eWZM This area is where the former West Hoathly station stood, most traces of which have disappeared, a quick stop to feel round and wind on a brake for the descent to Horsted Keynes, keeping speed down. The only heat was on the single journal that had develo...

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: RS1083/45 to move Kingscote-Horsted Keynes Up yard tomorrow.

Neil Cameron
Posted: 20 Feb 2012, 23:13 

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Mick, I recall those days, a great deal was done with very little and very few of us : rail mounted handcrane and 2 or 3 road cranes at end of their working life. I was on the "Charlie" / Q1 move, Sunters lorry, to Sheffield Park and used to work with Chris Levy and Roger Barton. The hand ...

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: RS1083/45 to move Kingscote-Horsted Keynes Up yard tomorrow.

Neil Cameron
Posted: 20 Feb 2012, 14:56 

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A small event in itself, but RS1083/45 is moving tomorrow to Horsted Keynes up yard mid-morning or soon after, hauled by the class 08 350hp diesel shunter, known as Gronk(?). The crane has lain abandoned and out of sight for more than a decade, so this is good news. While the move is as much to clea...

 Forum: General Breakdown and Recovery Discussions   Topic: Coal and Water Tankers in Breakdown Trains

Neil Cameron
Posted: 18 Sep 2011, 00:16 

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http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1735710 This is one in a sequence of 5 pictures taken by the photographer Ben Brooksbank of the 08h40 Sheffield - Manchester, ex-LNER B1 4-6-0 derailed at Woodhead on the down-up crossover for single line working, blocking the route for about 2 hours, being re-railed...

 Forum: Breakdown Cranes and Recovery Operations on Film   Topic: Last steam crane tandem lift, bridge, Haywards Heath 198x

Neil Cameron
Posted: 13 Sep 2011, 13:46 

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Well, the answer was here all the time, in the gallery!

http://www.bdca.org.uk/gallery/index.ph ... ge-Renewal


Many thanks for posting this excellent and historic series!

Neil Cameron

 Forum: Military Breakdown Cranes   Topic: Preserved Military Ransomes & Rapier 45t crane(s)

Neil Cameron
Posted: 28 Aug 2011, 20:08 

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I have a file on about twenty various steam cranes used at Shoebury but as I am in Kamloops British Columbia at present I'm not able to access the information. I'll be in touch after 9th July. The military survivor of the 45 tonners is at Toddington. CC Many thanks for this Chris (belatedly), look ...
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