Metal Breakdown

The Artistic Director has been promising to produce a breakdown crane for New Mills for many months so perhaps these recent photos of the Cowans Sheldon crane at the Didcot preservation centre, taken by Phill Hutchings, will spur him on.

The proposal is to use the original Hornby Dublo crane as a basis for the project. Often dismissed as a rather crude model, these photos prove otherwise and confirm that the Binns Road model makers captured much of the essence of this railway beast.