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Off the Rails
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:03 pm
by 52D
Enclosed is a picture of a B1 4-6-0 61116 (A lovely symetrical number) formerly of Neasden, When in this picture it was at Duns on the Reston St Boswells line, It was supposed to be shedded at Eastfield. Can anyone say if between Neasden and Eastfield it was loaned to Tweedmouth and can anyone give details of the mishap which supposedly happened in 1963. Is the crane the Tweedmouth breakdown crane?.
Re: Off the Rails
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:11 pm
by 52A
Certainly looks like the Tweedmouth crane.
Re: Off the Rails
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:52 pm
by David Withers
The crane is a Cowans Sheldon and appears to have relieving bogies and a single-lattice jib of some 40 ft length. This would fit with the 1936-built 36-ton CME 5 / DE331158 which was based at Tynemouth at the date of the incident, so a fair chance that's what it is.
Re: Off the Rails
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:04 pm
by third-rail
TYNEMOUTH!!!,did not know it had an mpd
Re: Off the Rails
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 1:42 am
by 52A
Or a steam crane.
Re: Off the Rails
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:38 am
by David Withers
I wondered who'd be the first to spot that!
