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 Forum: Breakdown Cranes Overseas   Topic: Travelling abroad looking for BDCs

Chris Capewell
Posted: 16 Jan 2011, 15:09 

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Travelling abroad and do not wish to miss seeing any steam powered breakdown cranes!!……by all means contact me and I’ll try to point you in the right directions. I have done a fair amount of looking in respect of extant machines; further to my basic and comprehensive research into exported machines ...

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: Where are BDCs based currently?

Chris Capewell
Posted: 16 Jan 2011, 14:54 

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I am open to correction but i believe - I no longer have a TOPS adviser!! 96710 - Bescot ( ex OOC, further to repair at Eastliegh 2009 ) 96711 - Scrapped for spares at Gateshead 2001 at the time the other class members were going through works at Clark Chapman, Gateshead. Cl.Ch. actually advertised ...

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

Chris Capewell
Posted: 16 Jan 2011, 14:15 

Replies: 10
Views: 75651
Order dates, delivery from works dates, received at site dates, commissioning dates, and signing off as accepted by the client dates can all vary by a year or two! ( Or more if the Great War or WW2 got in the way. )

 Forum: Breakdown Cranes Overseas   Topic: Cranes in Ireland

Chris Capewell
 Post subject: Cranes in Ireland
Posted: 16 Jan 2011, 14:01 

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I would be pleased to have a conversation with anyone who can say anything about the Cowans Sheldon cranes, destined for Russia, that didn’t get sent there, and were sold as surplus in the 1920s. The order was for four number twenty ton capacity bogie cranes and the works numbers were 4110-4113. Two...

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

Chris Capewell
Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 16:20 

Replies: 10
Views: 75651
A fellow member found this a while ago. I did ask the original contributor for any more he had ..... but none was forthcoming ... http://www.6lda28.com/brel/shed.html I am interested to ascertain where the impetus within the UK came from for dieselising such cranes; were the Army, LTPB, BR or CS in ...

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

Chris Capewell
Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 15:16 

Replies: 5
Views: 34568
One must note and promote another excellent site with crane pictures, all his own work and from a very extensive photographic collection……….. and he is a member, and the link is by his name.

http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/

 Forum: Military Breakdown Cranes   Topic: Steel Company of Wales Cowans Sheldon steam BDC

Chris Capewell
Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 15:09 

Replies: 2
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Large capacity railway breakdown cranes in other than Railway Company or Military ownership are rare. One which has pretty much escaped attention was that owned by the Steel Company of Wales. It was obtained second hand from the military following service in Europe from late 1944. It was a Cowans Sh...

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

Chris Capewell
Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 13:47 

Replies: 5
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On Track Plant website has sightings and photographs of extant BDCs ( amongst all sorts of other quaint and exotic kit ); and for some scrapped examples. http://www.ontrackplant.com/ Go to sightings and then under relevant number series. More news of current sightings would be welcome to keep things...
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