Can anyone id this Taylor Hubbard crane?

[rodent279]

Can anyone identify this Taylor Hubbard crane? It's numbered RDE 1763/8½, so it's an 8½SWL machine. Obviously I know what it was when the photo was taken by my father, which was around 1963, during the electrification of the southern section of the WCML into Euston.

My question is what later number/s did it have? How long did it survive? Where was it based? Was it rebuilt into a higher capacity machine (I know some TH machines were)?

And is it a sister of this machine, photographed by @hmrspaulof this parish?

 

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brcranedrt813--/h381a39d2

 

Thanks in advance for any further info.

Cheers Neil

 

Edited September 3, 2022 by rodent279

[hmrspaul]

Not difficult to find the answer, seconds on https://www.ontrackplant.com/

Where is written by 

Adrian Nicholls

Posted: 30 January 2021, 16:50

RDE1763 was Taylor & Hubbard wks no. 1735 of 1959. It was rated at 8.5t capacity but later uprated to 10t. When CEPS numbering was introduced it became ADRT 96414 and worked with match wagon DM235350. Depots it has been recorded allocated to were Neasden 5/64. Colchester 10/84 and Peterborough 11/85 before finally Heaton OHL Depot 4/88-3/91 It was scrapped in February 1995. Several similar examples are preserved : DRT 81353 at Nottingham Heritage Centre and DRT 81356 at the Battlefield Railway, Shackerstone. (Info sourced from Rail Cranes Vol.3 by Peter Tatlow).

 

My photos https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/heavydutycrane/e540b4e3a https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/heavydutycrane/e540b5404   https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/heavydutycrane/e21da6c3d  

 

I'm uncertain of the runner, DM235350 when I saw it was with ADRT96413. 

 

Paul

[rodent279]

Hmm. Thanks for that Paul. Embarrassingly, Adrian has responded to a post I made on OnTrackPlant! I wasn't aware there had been any replies though, as I hadn't had any emails, so have I thought I'd post here.

Thanks anyway.

Would I be right in thinking that the one I linked to on your site, 81354/DM1754, is the same type as 1763, but unrebuilt?

 

Cheers Neil