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The engine was taken on by the 4F Locomotive Society, and the engine now resides at the Worth Valley Railway. [10] However, this did not stop the engines from being scrapped as a whole, as in 1972, 4MT Mogul No. 76080 was cut up and the following year, 2884 class No. 3817 was cut up as well. [11]
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.
The Barry Engine first appeared in 1904 when it was exhibited at the Stanley Exhibition in London's Burners Hall. Designed by Charles Benjamin Redrup and manufactured in partnership with Alban Williams by the Barry Motor Company, the engine was a two-cylinder supercharged rotary engine .
Strictly speaking, not a member of the 'Barry 10'; it was given to the town of Barry by Dai Woodham, and lumped in with the Barry 10 later. Under restoration at the Dean Forest Railway. [3] 4575 Class: 2-6-2 T: No. 5539 Under restoration at the Llangollen Railway. 5600 Class: 0-6-2 T: No. 6686 In storage; due to be restored for use on the Barry ...
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One of the Barry Ten, the last ten locomotives to leave Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales. Owned by the Vale of Glamorgan Council, it is stored 'unrestored' at Barry Depot on the Barry Island Railway. It has been confirmed that the loco is to be dismantled and sectioned in the future as part of an exhibition at Barry that will ...
In the 1930s, the Woodhams started to trade in scrap metal and, in 1957, the company began dismantling railway wagons, as a result of the 1955 Modernisation Plan which sought to reduce the British Railways wagon fleet from over one million to just 600,000, and to scrap and replace around 16,000 steam locomotives with new "standard" designs, as ...