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SC 696679
Description View from NE
Date 19/10/1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 696679
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Hand Crane, Station, Commercial Crescent, Ladybank Station, Fife This was one of two hand cranes in the former goods yard at Ladybank, an important junction station on what became the Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee Railway. These cranes were probably installed by that company before it became part of the North British Railway in 1865. This shows the larger of the two cranes, which like the other, is a post crane, with the jib and mechanism rotating round a cast iron post set into the masonry base seen here. The crane is of fairly light construction and was probably built to deal with loads of a few hundredweights (cwt). Cranes of this type were, until the 1960s, standard equipment in many railway goods stations, but the decline in railborne freight meant that they were by that time rarely used. This one appears to have been in usable condition. It has since been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/68/33/4
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