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ADRC96718 Album

Cowans Sheldon crane, works No. 8053, built for the War Department as an oil-fired 45-ton steam crane in 1943. Sold to British Railways' London Midland Region in 1960 whence it was numbered RS1085/45.

It was later given CEPS number ADRC95221 which it carried until conversion from steam to diesel-hydraulic in May 1986. Now preserved at Llangollen Railway.