Irish?

[WRENNEIRE]

Any idea what this is from folks?

 

[minister_for_hardship]

A loading bank crane?

 

Looking thru the GSR appendix to the WTT, no 4 1/2T crane is listed anywhere. Unless you know where it came from, can't tell if Irish or not, these things were usually supplied by contractors, not built by the railways themselves.

[Jawfin]

4.5t would be very small for a proper crane... Maybe GNR 31, the Hawthorn Leslie Crane Tank from Dundalk?

[jhb171achill]

Is it meant to be Irish? I don't recognise it as anything Irish....

[minister_for_hardship]

4.5t would be very small for a proper crane... Maybe GNR 31, the Hawthorn Leslie Crane Tank from Dundalk?

 

The ones listed in the GSR book vary from 10-15 cwt up to 7 or 10 tons capacity. Most of the smaller ones were simple hand operated things with a timber boom usually.

Edited April 29, 2015 by minister_for_hardship