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    UKMISC: Rail Cranes: Taylor and Hubbard

    Taylor & Hubbard Cranes

    Taylor & Hubbard was an engineering company founded in Leicester, specialising in the production of railway cranes. They later moving to Kent Street, Humberstone Road, Leicester, in approximately 1900 which gave them access to the railway siding.

    The company was founded in 1896 and up to the 1960s made steam cranes for railway companies in both the UK and around the world, mainly in the British Empire. By the 1960s they were making diesel-electric cranes for British Railways and hydraulic cranes for the Admiralty. Their cranes were used on oil tankers, and they sold dockside cranes for the Thames Conservancy.

    Taylor & Hubbard were taken over in the early 1960s by F. H. Lloyd & Co. Ltd.

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    Photo: Dan Cardwell

    Number Altnumber Name Status Note Livery Depot Base Owner
    1576 DRT 80113   DE330274   80   274   80/015 P 10t 6w Steam Driven Vertical Boiler Crane Black PR Chasewater Railway PRE
    1595 DS 414   DRT 80133   P 10t 6w Steam Driven Crane Grey PR Mid Hants Railway PRE
    1599 DW 69   DRT 80169   S 10t 6w Steam Driven Crane Grey PR Ferryhill Railway Heritage Trust PRE
    1603 DS 451   DRT 80135   KESR 133   P 10t 6w Steam Driven Crane Red PR Kent & East Sussex Railway PRE
    1636 DM1753   DRT 81353   X 15t 8w Diesel Electric Crane
    1639 DM1756   DRT 81356   X 15t 8w Diesel Electric Crane
    1676 DRT 81026   81027   1426   DM1426 P 10t 6w Diesel Mechanical Crane (jib from 81027) Yellow PR Epping & Ongar Railway PRE
    1694 RS 1057/10   DS57   DRT 80131   S 10t 6w Steam Driven Crane Grey PR E.Bradley, Scunthorpe (Private Site) PRE
    1695 DS 58   DRT 80132   DS1997   P 10t 6w Steam Driven Crane Yellow PR Mid Hants Railway PRE
    1738 DRT81201   RDE1159/7   S 7t 6w Diesel Electric Crane Yellow PR Ribble Steam Railway PRE
    1744 DRT81367   DM1767   P 15t 8w Diesel Electric Crane Yellow PR Caledonian Railway PRE
    1765 DEC622   S 6t 6w Diesel Electric Low Height Crane Grey PR Spa Valley Railway PRE
    1766 583   BC227   S 4w Steam Driven Vertical Boiler Crane Green PR Big Pit National Coal Museum PRE
    1792 DRT 81339   DB965289   S 15t 8w Diesel Electric Crane Yellow PR Spa Valley Railway PRE
    1794 DRT 81340   DB965290   S 15t 8w Diesel Electric Travelling Crane Yellow PR Midland Railway - Butterley PRE
    1795 DRT 81341   DB965291   P 15t 8w Diesel Electric Travelling Crane Grey PR Keighley & Worth Valley Railway PRE
    1797 DB965293   DRT81343   P 15t 8w Diesel Electric Travelling Crane Yellow PR Eden Valley Railway PRE
    1802 81   DRT 81318   DB966439   81/018 S 15t 8w Diesel Electric Crane Yellow PR Colne Valley Railway PRE
    935 S 2t 4w Steam Driven Vertical Boiler Crane Pink/Green PR BOCM Pauls Ltd, Selby PRE
    Unknown D 1t 4w Hand Worked Yard Crane Green/Red PR Isle of Wight Steam Railway PRE