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Barry Island was once a popular holiday resort with south Wales' miners, who would head there with their families during miners' fortnight, typically the last week of July and the first week of ...
Barry Island railway station is the terminus of Network Rail's Barry Branch and connects with the main line and various Valley lines at Cardiff, about 9 miles (14 km) north, north-east of Barry. Further tourist attractions were developed on the island, and by 1934 the number of visitors to the fairground during the August Bank Holiday week was ...
Woodham Brothers Ltd is a trading business, based mainly around activities and premises located within Barry Docks, in Barry, South Wales. It is noted globally for its 1960s activity as a scrapyard (hence its colloquial name of Barry Scrapyard ), where 297 withdrawn British Railways steam locomotives were sent, from which 213 were rescued for ...
Here’s what’s occurring in Barry Island from Gavin & Stacey backdrops to beaches and beyond. Whitmore Bay is Barry Island’s main stretch of sand (Visit Wales) Best time to travel for price ...
Barry Island Pleasure Park is an amusement park situated on the coast at Barry Island in the Vale of Glamorgan, about 10 miles (16 km) south west of the capital city Cardiff, Wales. The park opens annually at weekends from Easter onwards and daily during the school summer holidays, until the first weekend in September.
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Below is a list of the locomotive types saved at Woodham Brothers scrapyard, Barry Island, Wales. They are shown by class, indicating how many of each class were saved. Altogether, 213 engines were saved. GWR classes (98 in total) 6 GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 - No. 2807 was the oldest locomotive to leave Woodham's for preservation in January 1981.
Barry Island. The Barry Island peninsula was an island until the 1880s when it was linked to the mainland as the town of Barry expanded. This was partly due to the opening of Barry Dock by the Barry Railway Company. Established by David Davies, the docks now link up the gap which used to form Barry Island.