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 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Crane at Roberts Rd Doncaster

Rob Morel
Posted: 29 Jul 2012, 21:05 

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Could also be ADRC96100 one of the 30 tonne cranes (along with ADRC96101) that was at Doncaster with Jarvis ??

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Crane at Roberts Rd Doncaster

Rob Morel
Posted: 29 Jul 2012, 15:25 

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Doncaster TMD has Adrc 96709 (late 80s) then Adrc96705 (early90s) if it was the 'local' crane in the background however as the pictured image of the smaller crane 81537 appears to have new style overhead warning signs (yellow triangle) rather than older red flash could it possibly be the former Thor...

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Scottish Derailment (West Highland Line)

Rob Morel
Posted: 05 Jul 2012, 11:25 

Replies: 10
Views: 33547
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlrV6W3CDiE

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Scottish Derailment (West Highland Line)

Rob Morel
Posted: 03 Jul 2012, 11:13 

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Views: 33547
http://davepurser.smugmug.com/Trains/Tr ... &k=3GrjFq7

more images showing the scene.

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Scottish Derailment (West Highland Line)

Rob Morel
Posted: 30 Jun 2012, 17:11 

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Views: 33547
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-18649237

Quite a significiant derailment, with regards to how the locomotive is to be recovered (66 734 from GBRf 126 tonnes). Quite a challenge....

 Forum: Breakdown Cranes Overseas   Topic: Cowans in South Africa

Rob Morel
 Post subject: Re: Cowans in South Africa
Posted: 05 May 2012, 17:47 

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Views: 14021
Is this it? a little history attached to the comments also -
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... =5#remarks

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: 96201

Rob Morel
 Post subject: Re: 96201
Posted: 04 May 2012, 09:44 

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I show it scrapped at Ashford Plant Depot 09/1997 by contractors Phillips from Llanelli, similar crane ADRC 96200 also scrapped here by same company but 09/1998.
These two being Diesel Mechanical rather than Diesel Hydraulic ADRC 967XX range.

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Network Rail Breakdown Cranes

Rob Morel
Posted: 25 Apr 2012, 13:21 

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London & South East land covered by a DB Schenker gang working out of Dollands Moor depot using two plain white vans supplied by NR. Difficuly in retaining and rostering HGV1 trained staff members to drive the road rail SRS vehicles in part led to this, but the main reason is that the smaller va...

 Forum: Makers, Allocations, Dates and other Miscellaneous   Topic: Kirow -- not breakdown cranes?

Rob Morel
Posted: 15 Apr 2012, 17:13 

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Slightly off topic but one of the larger Kirows derailed whilst lifting new switch & crossing panels in at Luton North Junction in 2009 (i think) and promptly recovered itself using its stabilisers to rerail the one axle that had derailed (all within a possession). Whilst NOT breakdown cranes, w...

 Forum: General Breakdown and Recovery Discussions   Topic: 2012

Rob Morel
 Post subject: Re: 2012
Posted: 11 Feb 2012, 16:28 

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Views: 17355
ADRC96713 and ADRC96714 both in store at Wigan Springs Branch. - The class 90 at Bletchley that derailed crossing up slow to up fast through a 15mph crossover actually ' landed' nearer to (and fouling) the down fast, so one of the small road rail Volvo vehicles attended and performed the lift using ...
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