A Kingdom of rust in the Kingdom of Fife
I'd been meaning to have a mooch around here for years because I'd heard there were steam locomotives here; but it's a long way from home so when I happened to be nearby with work last month I took the chance...
Coles crane on 6-wheeled lorry chassis.
http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/t.../Fife-005w.jpg
Aircraft radial engines.
http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/t.../Fife-004w.jpg
Some big chain, probably from a shipyard...
http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/t.../Fife-008w.jpg
Some even bigger chain.
http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/t.../Fife-015w.jpg
Greens motor roller.
http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/t.../Fife-007w.jpg
Aveling Barford dump truck.
http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/t.../Fife-006w.jpg
Selection of oil engines.
http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/t.../Fife-017w.jpg
Tank from pre-WW2 railway tank wagon.
http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/t.../Fife-016w.jpg
Seddon Atkinson tanker.
http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/t.../Fife-014w.jpg
Fire engine of some sort.
http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/t...9/DSC00787.jpg
And the main attraction...
Four saddleank locomotives, all built at various times between 1902 and 1949 by Andrew Barclay Ltd. of Kilmarnock. They've been here since the 1970s when they were sold for scrap from collieries around Fife.
http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/t.../Fife-001w.jpg
http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/t.../DSC00780w.jpg
http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/t.../DSC00781w.jpg
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Nice report, those chains are huge! :thumb
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I want to move in! Great find mate
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that fire engine looks like it is built round a dodge chassis and cab !!
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pi...dodge-fire.jpg
and is sort of like katie price ( no visible means of support !! )
some neat finds there !! love the little andrew barclay 040's sadly overlooked in favour of bigger loco's
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Great stuff, looks like Scrapheap Challenge.
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Awesome and probally the biggest chain I have ever seen thanks for sharng mate
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nice pics. shame about those engines hopefully they'll get saved, you dont see too many saddletank's.
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BA would be proud of that chain.
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Nice find, mate - wanna give me a hint so I can have a wee mooch m'self?
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