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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.
All under the care of the Barry Tourist Railway, eight locomotives are still in Barry only a few hundred yards away from where they were removed, while two are under restoration at different locations around the country. GWR 4575 Class No. 5553 was the last steam engine to leave Woodham Brothers, in January 1990 for the West Somerset Railway.
In total, 213 out of 297 locomotives were saved from scrap here. ... Barry Ten; BR Battle of Britain class 34073 249 Squadron; BR Standard Class 4 2-6-0 76084;
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 ...
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.
On 13 October 1939, No. 5025 was hauling an express passenger train from Euston to Stranraer (pilot to locomotive 6130 The West Yorkshire Regiment, an LMS Royal Scot Class 4-6-0) when it was in collision with locomotive LNWR Class G1 0-8-0 9169, which was attaching a van to the rear of an Inverness train at Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, severely ...
Three members of the class have also operated on the mainline in preservation: No's 46441, 46443 & 46521. Three of them were purchased from British Railways while the other four preserved examples were rescued from Barry Scrapyard throughout the 1970s. The ones rescued from Barry Scrapyard include No. 46428, No. 46447, No. 46512, and No. 46521.
An Exhibition of Grimshaw's Barry (South Wales) Photographs shown at the Up-front Gallery in the village of Unthank near Penrith in Cumbria 11 July until 8 August 2021; The photographs show the corroding effects of sea air on the hundred plus steam locomotives parked at Woodham's scrapyard awaiting scrapping, most to be eventually saved.