Dübs Crane Tank 4101 - Foxfield Railway

Dübs & Company
Works No 4101 0-4-0CT

Built in 1901 for Shelton Iron & Steel Works Limited, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The locomotive has a slewing engine powering a jib through 360 degrees. Situated within the construction of the jib, a reciprocating engine gives a lifting capacity of five tons.

The locomotive had a new boiler fitted in 1921 by Kerr Stuart and was converted from coal fired to oil burning in 1961.

The locomotive was replaced by diesel cranes in 1968, and was preserved in 1970 and moved to the East Somerset Railway in 1973, were the locomotive acted as shed pilot and used for heavy lifting jobs and on the Mendip Vale extension. Withdrawn in 1986, the locomotive later moved to the Foxfield Railway.

In this video we see the locomotive working around Foxfiel Colliery, performing demonstration lifts and working solo and as banking locomotive on demonstration goods trains up the bank.

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(C) Lee Andrew Davies 2021