Steam crane
A steam crane is a crane powered by a steam engine. It may be fixed or mobile and, if mobile, it may run on rail tracks, caterpillar tracks, road wheels, or be mounted on a barge. It usually has a vertical boiler placed at the back so that the weight of the boiler counterbalances the weight of the jib and load.
Railway steam crane, with vertical cross-tube boiler, at Summerlee Heritage Park
Fairbairn steam crane in Bristol
Derelict Smith (Rodley) crane, on the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal
They were very common as railway breakdown cranes and several have been preserved on heritage railways in the United Kingdom.
Manufacturers
- Black Hawthorn of Gateshead (unrestored example at Beamish Museum[1]
- Joseph Booth & Bros of Leeds
- Coles Cranes of Derby (restored example at Beamish Museum)
- Cowans, Sheldon & Company of Carlisle (rail cranes)
- Craven Brothers
- William Fairbairn & Sons of Manchester
- Ruston Proctor of Lincoln
- Stothert & Pitt of Bath
- Thomas Smith & Sons (Rodley) Ltd. of Leeds
See also
Steam powered Overhead crane from 1875
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