Waiting for a ship that will never come.....

[gordon]

The problem is it's about 100 yards down the riverbank from anywhere you can stand, never mind put a big crane to lift it out with. You can see the pier on the Multimap link in the first message.

£5000 would probably hire a crane big enough to recover it, or if you had a crane barge sitting on the Forth you weren't using and could let me borrow? It would have to be low enough to get under the Kincardine No-Swing Bridge though, which was welded shut about ten years back.

It's actually a very nice little item, almost certainly WW2 period and possibly even before that.

I certainly would have it if I could get it, but would probably donate it to the local railway preservation place. I'd guess it's about ten or fifteen tons as it sits, so too heavy to lift without serious machinery.

G