YARD CRANES

The Yard crane is sometimes neglected by the railway modeller. The prototypes show a great variety of styles and sizes, but while one sees a few well detailed scratch-built models, most modellers seem to fall back on the rather limited range of commercially available products. Hence the accompanying pictures may be of some interest.

This is a crane at a small station in Spain, which would make an attractive model.

The one above used to be situated in County Durham and is another one which has a stone base.

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These are two New Zealand Railways cranes. Although unsuitable for an accurate British prototype layout, they would be appropriate for a freelance system, particularly if narrow gauge. The first crane, uppermost, is used for the coaling-up of locomotives at a country station. The second is of a small yard crane at Amberley.

The picture above is not strictly a yard crane, but in a small yard this may be more convenient than that of a fixed type.

Two cranes from county Durham.

When this station was closed a scrap metal merchant moved into what was the goods yard. He then used the crane to move round the scrap.

On the left is not a goods yard crane but a small dockside crane. It would make a quite attractive model.