Since the privatisation of the UK rail network, Toton TMD has been operated by DB Cargo UK. As at 2021, it is home to the Class 60 and Class 66 diesel locomotives. Changes in the …

A re-conditioned engine from Doncaster is hoisted from a low loader by a 76 ton breakdown crane ( a crane was later installed inside the depot). Such work (Level 5) was not done at Toton at …

60094 Is shunting the Cowans Sheldon 75 Tonne rail crane at Crewe Diesel depot on a cold snowy morning. 22nd June 2002, the Bennerley derailment. Photographed from Awsworth …

The introduction of heavy diesel locomotives as part of the modernisation plan generated a requirement for higher capacity breakdown cranes, existing breakdown cranes having a …

‘Cowans Sheldon’ crane (LNER works order No.6871), originally built in 1939 as a 45-tonne crane, was delivered in February 1940 as LNER No.941599, subsequently numbered 330110 …

De afbeelding op zijn website in Toton in 1960 is een Cowans Sheldon 75 ton stoomkranen (met verlichting van boogschieten); in rode lever.

2024年7月10日 · The very last steam crane of any size or type to survive in BR service was the 1955 3-ton Thomas Smith crane ADRS 95000 (later 024984) which survived as an internal …

Most large sheds had breakdown cranes until recent years but very few remained on the National Network after privatisation on BR in the late 1990’s. Our crane was built in 1936 as Cowans …