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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.
This category is for locomotives that were saved from Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, Wales and subsequently preserved. In total, 213 out of 297 locomotives were ...
BR decided to scrap 92207 in December 1964 after five years and seven months in service. Woodham Brothers scrap yard in Barry, South Wales bought the locomotive. It arrived as part of a convoy in March 1965 and remained there 21 years and 7 months – four times longer than it was in service with BR – until it became the 180th locomotive to ...
It is noted globally for its 1960s activity as a scrapyard (hence its colloquial name of Barry Scrapyard), where 297 withdrawn British Railways steam locomotives were sent, from which 213 were rescued for the developing railway preservation movement. [1] [2] [3] [4]
It was retired in 1963 when steam services were taken over by railcars, and remained in storage at Barry Scrapyard for 22 years. Its first home in preservation was the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway , where restoration was originally started, but it moved to Long Marston MoD and later Llangollen for the completion of its overhaul, finally ...
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The Barry 10 was a collection of unsold scrapyard steam locomotives that were removed from Woodham Brothers in 1990 when Dai Woodham retired. They were then taken on by the Vale of Glamorgan Council. For the next 20 years, the locomotives were stored in scrapyard condition, although several were bought.
Notes. Locomotives 6959–6970 were built without names, receiving their names in 1946 and 1947. Locomotive 6998 was sold direct to the Great Western Society, Didcot.All other preserved locomotives were originally sold as scrap to Woodham Brothers, Barry.