Although the Covid lockdown has meant it's been a while since I wrote about the work of the Railway Heritage Designation Advisory Board (RHDAB), we have kept busy and a number of important artefacts have been designated and found new homes. One of the largest of these is a 75-tonne breakdown crane which was originally designated by our predecessor body, the Railway Heritage Committee (RHC) in 1999. Crane ADRC 96714 was manufactured by Cowans Sheldon in Carlisle, entering service with British Rail in 1980 as part of the modernisation of recovery operations.
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