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Steam Breakdown Crane No. 1

Track Gauge: Standard (143.5 cm)

Wheel Arrangement: 0-4-4 / B2'

Maker: Cowans Sheldon, UK

Year Built: 1918

Use: Clearing Accident Sites,  Engineering Works

Overall Length: 16.30m

Maximum Lifting Capacity: 25 t

One of 2 cranes of this type brought by the British army to Palestine in World War I, it remained in service with Israel Railways until the 1970s.

Around 1960 Israel Railways replaced the crane's original coal-fired boiler with a new and larger oil fired boiler, manufactured locally.