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Built 2005 as working replica of 1840 Broad Gauge 2-2-2. [35] GWR Iron Duke Class: Iron Duke: Static Display Built 1985 as working replica of early Broad Gauge 4-2-2. On loan from National Railway Museum. Breakdown Crane RS1054 Under restoration Built 1930. Ex LMS Cowan Sheldon 50 ton steam crane. Steam Crane 23059 For restoration
Steam breakdown crane Manchester, Cravens: 1907 York [215] 1975–7051 NER: 14974 Four-wheel loco sand wagon 1912 Shildon [216] (available for transfer out of the collection 2021) [217] 1978–7095 LSWR: 1904 Gunpowder Van Eastleigh, LSWR Dia No. 1701 1912 Yeovil [218] LNWR: 21408 Goods van Earlestown, LNWR Dia No. 88 1917 York [219] 1978 ...
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge. Most narrow-gauge railways are between 600 mm ( 1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in ) and 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ).
Rail Crane Rail SPA Crane (750 mm) Czech PW maintenance crane Electric crane replacing track on the Toronto streetcar system (1917). A railway crane (North America: railroad crane, crane car or wrecker; UK: breakdown crane) is a type of crane used on a railway for one of three primary purposes: freight handling in goods yards, permanent way (PW) maintenance, and accident recovery work.
The Statfold Barn Railway is a narrow gauge railway based near Tamworth, Staffordshire and partially in Warwickshire, England. [1] Founded by engineering entrepreneur Graham Lee and his wife Carol at their farm-based home, they originally designed what is still termed the garden railway, in which Graham could run his trains and Carol could design an extensive English country garden around a lake.
Ransomes & Rapier was formed in 1869 when four engineers, James Allen Ransome (1806–1875), his elder son, Robert James Ransome (c.1831–1891), Richard Christopher Rapier (1836–1897) and Arthur Alec Bennett (1842–1916), left the parent firm by agreement to establish a new firm on a site on the River Orwell to continue the business of manufacturing railway equipment and other heavy works.
It was notable as the only narrow gauge railway in Britain that was required to use main-line standard signalling. For a short period, it earned a modest return for shareholders, but for most of its existence it made a loss. [1] In 1923, the L&B was taken over by the Southern Railway, and eventually closed in September 1935.
All present rolling stock are built to the 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge. PNR also has rail mounted cranes as supporting equipment with varying capacities from 0.5 to 30 tonnes (1,100 to 66,100 lb). In late 2019, all trains in service except the 203 series-derived coaches underwent refurbishment and livery changes.