GWR 6000 Class 6023 King Edward II at Woodham Brothers in 1982
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 It is noted globally for its 1960s activity as a scrapyard (hence its colloquial name of Barry Scrapyard), where 297 withdrawn British Railways steam locomotives were sent, from which 213 were rescued for the developing railway preservation movement.[1][2][3][4]
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WoodhamBrothers Ltd is a trading business, based mainly around activities and premises located within Barry Docks, in Barry, South Wales. It is noted...
Below is a list of the locomotive types saved at WoodhamBrothers scrapyard, Barry Island, Wales. They are shown by class, indicating how many of each...
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was withdrawn in December 1963, and sold to WoodhamBrothers, Barry for scrap in May 1964. WoodhamBrothers sold the locomotive to David Smith and it moved...
main line system. His family owned WoodhamBrothers scrapyard in Barry Docks, Barry, Wales. In the 1930s, the Woodhams started to trade in scrap metal,...
traction on British Railways. Seven locomotives were obtained from WoodhamBrothers scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. The other two were...
and sold to WoodhamBrothers scrapyard in Barry Island. 34046 was withdrawn from service in October 1965 and moved to the WoodhamBrothers' scrapyard at...
21C127 Taw Valley is a Southern Railway West Country class 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive that has been preserved. It is presently operational at the Severn...
eight years. This unique locomotive was saved from being scrapped at WoodhamBrothers scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales when it was purchased...
21C153 Sir Keith Park is a Southern Railway Battle of Britain class 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive that has been preserved. It became a permanent resident...
shed. 21C18 was withdrawn from service in August 1964 and sold on to WoodhamBrothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales where it arrived in December of the...
All other preserved locomotives were originally sold as scrap to WoodhamBrothers, Barry. Daniel, John. "GWR Hall class". Great Western Archive. Retrieved...
in May 1966 after a working life of just 17 years, and was sold to WoodhamBrothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales. In 1983, it was purchased by "The...
locomotive was withdrawn by British Railways in July 1963 and sold to the WoodhamBrothers for scrap. It was sold and taken to the South Devon Railway in November...
in traffic served until June 1965. Four of the class were bought by WoodhamBrothers scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, and No. 7226 was scrapped there...
Waller, pp. 338–341; Woodham-Smith, pp. 68–69, 91 Hibbert, p. 18; Longford, p. 31; Woodham-Smith, pp. 74–75 Longford, p. 31; Woodham-Smith, p. 75 Hibbert...
the Kingsbridge branch line. In 1962 it was sold for scrap to the WoodhamBrothers. It was purchased by the WSRA in 1975 and was placed in service in...
renumbered 4506. Three of the class still exist, two of them survivors from WoodhamBrothers scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. All of them have...
Railway which is now privately owned the oldest locomotive saved from WoodhamBrothers scrapyard at Barry, Wales. No. 2807 was completed in August 1905 and...
6990 Witherslack Hall is a steam locomotive. It was built at Swindon by British Railways to a Great Western Railway design in 1948. It took part in the...
May that same year, having run 1,300,000 miles. It was later sold to WoodhamBrothers in Oct of the same year. 5051 remained in the scrapyard until March...
Shed (BR shed code 86H) after 44 years of service. 4277 was moved to WoodhamBrothers scrapyard in Barry, Glamorgan shortly after withdrawal and remained...
the West Country. It was withdrawn from Bristol in 1963 and sent to WoodhamBrothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales. It was rescued by members of the Great...
hauling express passenger services. After withdrawal, it was sent to WoodhamBrothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales, where it remained for a number of...
directly from BR for preservation. The other two were rescued from WoodhamBrothers. All four have operated in preservation and all have run on the main...
purposes. After the completion of the tests, the locomotives were sent to WoodhamBrothers scrapyard at Barry, which would involve less travelling than travelling...
total of 46 standards have survived - of these, 38 were rescued from WoodhamBrothers scrapyard in Wales. The BR Standard Locomotive Owner's Group provides...
unsold scrapyard steam locomotives that were removed from WoodhamBrothers in 1990 when Dai Woodham retired. They were then taken on by the Vale of Glamorgan...
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