Spotted this at the weekend on Great Central Railway Leicester,Its a coal shovel that has been replaced by A JCB 525 telehandler for loading the steam locomotives. Still in tidy order.The preserved railway was also running full lenght coal trains.

Looks like a 42HD it may have a Perkins or Ford 6cyl depending on age.

Nice find, it looks to be in fairly good order for its age.

Here are a few Weatherill Loading Shovel spec sheets covers,all from around the mid 1970s.Hope they are of interest to anyone !

The Weatherill L86 looked a beast but it probably arrived 10 years too late.

The L86 does look a beast, it also reminds of Michigan loaders.

The Weatherill 42H looks very like the early Volvo BM's..............

When was the first front drive rear steer Volvo produced?

Weatherill had the 8H in 1955 and this was close to Chaseside with a much more advanced looking LM 600. They were both predated by Matbro IIRR.

The front cab 42H arrived about '61.

Volvo introduced their H10 in 1954:
http://www.volvo.com/constructionequipm ... uction.htm

Thanks Robert , that Volvo history site is very interesting.
Heres afew more working Weatherills;-