"Brian Robertson" <brianrobertson@[nospam].com> wrote in message 
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> Marcus Marcusson wrote:
>> There is a lot of literature and documentation about various artefacts
>> in the railway area. But I haven't really found anything about the
>> cranes used by and around the railways - reasonably a central function
>> of most of the marshalling yards once up in the time.
>>
>> Have anyone any ideas where to find relevant reading about cranes?
>>
>> Anyway, did find this old nice one in the railway museum of Kristianstad
>> in south-east of Sweden, muscle powered and presumably used for cole.
>>
>> http://www.abc.se/~m10901/RAIL/kristianstadkran.html
>>
>> /M
>
> What informtion do you require? Locations? Number of cranes? Lifting 
> capacity? Look on eBay or go to abebooks.co.uk and search out a copy of 
> the Railway Clearing House Handbook of Stations. Chances are, you will get 
> the David and Charles reprint of the 1904 edition, but there were also 
> editions from 1956 (Fairly rare) and 1938 (Think rocking horse sh*t)
>
> If you want information about a specific location then email me and I will 
> try to supply what you want. This information will eventually be included 
> on my website. Also included on my website is a patchy list of emergency 
> cranes that were located around the B.R. network in 1960. Obviously this 
> information only covers the UK.
>
> For those who have never visited my website, it is building up to provide 
> a complete list of location on British Rail as at 1960, with links at 
> every junction so that a person can 'travel' from route to route with the 
> click of a mouse. A work in progress but getting there.
>
> Email address on my website.
>
> http://www.thesectionalappendix.co.uk
>
> Brian.
See also the photos here on Paul Bartlett's site:-
http://paulbartlettsotherrailwayphotos.fotopic.net/c20968.html
http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c1121552.html
http://gallery6801.fotopic.net/c88721.html
The road crane in the second selection was a design sponsored by the 
Ministry of Supply during WW2, intended to provide mobile cranage in areas 
where fixed facilities were deemed inadequate.
Brian