Can anyone advise the ID of the large yellow rail crane located at Liberty Steel, Stocksbridge? I saw it on Monday 28th July. Only viewed from a distance but doesn't appear to have any identifying marks and I am unsure of the make/model but it has clearly been there a while and is visible on Google Earth

I am probably overlooking it elsewhere on the site but can't find anything.

Thanks

I haven't seen it personally since 2011!! But appears it is still this one

https://www.ontrackplant.com/otp/industrial-crane-18203

Yes I would agree. Found an interesting photo on a Facebook group which suggests it’s a Cole’s R3010 crane, possibly with the model name Gladiator and with a rebuilt cab. The photo taken some years ago shows it coupled to a blue bogie flat wagon, I presume one of the internal user fleet.

I'll try and find the Facebook image for comparison as I have an image but likely won't be acceptable quality, so I haven't uploaded it here. Thanks

I've tried to upload mine from 2011.

Using my phone so can't edit it, but may be of use if it could be allowed at least temporarily?

The image now posted is certainly very similar to the crane I saw. My image is taken from the opposite side.

There are some differences, although I wonder whether they are alterations which have taken place in the 14 years since this image was taken. The crane currently at Stocksbridge has a cab. This would be beyond the circular winding mechanism cover in the image, and just before the boom, but as the images are opposite sides I cannot see whether there was a cab in 2011 or it may possibly be an addition since.

Where the crane sits at Stocksbridge now, there is a small platform with steps which gives access to the cab. Difficult to say categorically that it is 18203 but certainly could be and indications are that it is one in the same.

Yes, now I see it with the cab I am more certain and it definitely has been recently painted. Thanks for the help folks.