BobbyK Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 Does anyone know how coaling cranes used to operate at MPDs . I am thinking of those similar to Bournemouth and Guildford. From what I can tell they lifted skips of coal that were emptied into the tenders but how were the skips loaded. Were they hand filled straight out of wagons? Any info appreciated. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 If its anything like Didcot, they would have been filled with shovels, the coal wetted to lessen the dust, then the skip would be either rolled forward and tipped on special rails (Didcot) or maybe lifted and tipped by a crane. They might have used grab buckets on some of the cranes to grab coal off the heap and drop it straight in the tender. Another method would have been a flighted conveyor belt on a portable incline frame where coal would be shovelled into a relatively low hopper and carried up on the conveyor flights and dropped in the tender through a small chute or simply ejected when the flights passed around the top roller. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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