DR 81502 - Smith CCE Heavy Duty Diesel Hydraulic Crane
Photo of DR 81502 at Crewe OTPD - 20 September 1986. Roy Hennefer.
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Rob
7 May 2008, 20:09:06
Could this crane travel in traffic under it's own steam?
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Bryan
8 May 2008, 09:07:34
Cranes, Ballast cleaners etc cannot normally travel outside a possession unless special arrangements are made. These are site specific and must have good justification.
Tampers and Regs etc can travel.
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Fred
8 May 2008, 11:58:51
This Crane was built to travel without a locomotive and did so for a number of years while under BR. It travelled at 35 mph with its staff coach. It had a lifting capacity of 18T and had two rotating superstructures, geared to rotate in opposite directions, one being a full crane and the other being a slave counterweight. It was overhauled, modified at Derby in its later years. It worked mainly on LMR but towards the end of its life, worked on WR.
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Midnight Cowboy
8 May 2008, 12:47:11
I've seen plenty of Ballast Cleaners moving outside of possessions. It was only when TPWS and OTMR came in that it became 100% cost effective to run the machines in the consist of trains. The Cleaner we had at Sandiacre, went mainline a few times whilst I was there (1999 - 2006)
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BeeJay
8 May 2008, 17:35:53
I have just remembered one trip that I was involved in.
A Gopher ran under its own power from Leeds to Monkwearmouth in about 1994 It took a while!!
It was also a pointless excercise because the week after we reballasted the turnout to Monkwearmouth colliery it shut.
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Lerpassmapter
8 May 2008, 18:02:16
You would be surprised just how many miles that Gopher did under it's own power! Used to take a full week of night shifts sometimes to get from one site to another at about 15mph, wouldn't be able to do it now!
On one journey, one of its wheels actually fell off as it approached a huge S+C junction, it was on the main fast road and the signaller told the op it had to be moved as it was blocking mainline traffic.
So the op continued right through the S+C junction on 3 wheels before it finally derailed on a slow road out of the way from main traffic. No Joke!
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Lerpassmapter
8 May 2008, 18:26:27
You would be surprised just how many miles that Gopher did under it's own power! Used to take a full week of night shifts sometimes to get from one site to another at about 15mph, wouldn't be able to do it now!
On one journey, one of its wheels actually fell off as it approached a huge S+C junction, it was on the main fast road and the signaller told the op it had to be moved as it was blocking mainline traffic.
So the op continued right through the S+C junction on 3 wheels before it finally derailed on a slow road out of the way from main traffic. No Joke!
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