Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: scrapyard

My mate Barry in Barry! We drove down from Sheffield in his dad's car to see the railway wonder that was Woodham's scrapyard. This was my first visit and to see 200+ engines lined up was amazing. The fact that most of them survived is even more amazing, not that we could have even imagined that would happen at that time. Here ex-Southern Bulleid pacifics West Country 34101 Hartland and Merchant Navy 35022 Holland-America Line were alongside an empty line so you could get far enough away to capture a half-decent shot - at least you could if you had a half-decent camera. 34101 is based on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway these days and is under restoration. The latest bulletin : New inner firebox being fabricated. Boiler rebuild in hand. New firebox outer wrapper plates inserted. Frames on stands in repair shop for descaling , painting, re-assembly. All wheels out ready for tyre turning. In theory it should be back in steam during 2018.

Southern S15 4-6-0 30841 is seen in the right background while Great Western Hall Class 4-6-0 4979 Wooton Hall is at a lower level back-to-back with another Hall 4942 Maindy Hall. A rail-mounted crane is behind the S15. 4979 was built at Swindon in 1930 and withdrawn by British Railways from Oxford shed in 1963. It had been at Woodham's for 4 years when I took this and stayed a further 18 years before purchase into preservation. Still not restored it is currently located at the Ribble Steam Railway in Preston.

British Railways Standard 2MT 78019 in Woodhams Barry scrap yard in July 1970. Now to be found restored and in steam pulling trains on the Great Central Railway Loughborough

British Railways Standard 5 73156, built at Doncaster in 1956, in Woodhams scrapyard at Barry. Although it looks abandoned here it was eventually purchased & now it is under restoration at the Great Central Railway, Loughborough. See www.73156standard5group.co.uk/ The loco was virtually complete on arrival at Woodhams & would have been transported from Bolton shed to the yard by rail - the delivery address is crudely painted on the tender. In the left distance are a few of the thousands of railway wagons scrapped here which luckily delayed the cutting up of the steam engines long enough for them to survive into preservation. Note the virtually weed-free tracks & this is a scrapyard! Compare & contrast with the state of some of Network Rail's main lines these days. It had only been at Woodham's for 8 months when this photo was taken but it stayed for 12 years in total a year longer than it actually was in service with British Railways!