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Steam Rail
Model - Type - Steam RailRail Lattice Lift weight - 6 to 40 ton
Date - 1890 Power - Steam
Notes -
Image 1. Restored 1910 crane now on display at the Beamish Museum.
Images 2 and 3. Taken outside the Derby works around 1900.
Images 4 and 5. Both Coles working on harbours at the turn of the century. No 5 gives an idea of the size of these machines.
Image 6. A restored unit form 1890 now sitting outside a museum in Madrid
Image 7. Coles also supplied for other manufacturers. This Coles crane bolted onto a maintenance engine.

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Thanks - 1. Beamish Museum :2.3 Picture the Past. (Notts County historical photo archive)

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