BARRY SCRAPYARD - 1984

[Rabbitbunvoo]

Wow... it's incredible and very heart-warming to know so many were saved - your image of 6023 King Edward II contrasts so much with when I saw him launched last April...just incredible...

[favershamdriver31112]

amazing to think that the ones that were saved were only saved because the scrapyard got a contract to scrap a load of wagons and the wagons were easier to cut up than locos so the locos were left while the wagons were being destroyed

[craigcromack]

@favershamdriver31112 Actually, Dhai Woodhams chose to save them, also because he would get a little more than scrap value for the engines.

[canadiancatgreen]

i like the video and fitting music

[ThomasTrue]

It is quite astonishing the number of steam locomotives went from Barry into preservation. Hat's off to the unstinting work of preservationists who spend time and money saving an important part of our heritage.

[Hancockified]

It is amazing to see how many locomotives were still there sixteen years after steam was abolished but it does show how many locomotives were later preserved. Steam engines are beautiful & I hope these glorious machines are kept alive for future generations & this is a teenager speaking here lol

[GWRjim]

it breaks my eart to see great western locos and all other locos at that to see them that way

[d9003]

Brilliant video. No matter how many times I watch it I still get a lump in the throat. Music choice fits perfectly and I'm sure anyone, like me, who's made a number of pilgrimages to Barry in the 1980's will appreciate the way it brings back the emotions felt during those trips. Well done PMDVD.

[deepscan101]

One considers the great years past these served so well.

[ibidydo]

my railway just rescued just rescued a GWR locomotive i think it was a 4-6-0

[Thomasfan89]

its just so sad. steam engines are the pride of the railroad, the first made locomotives, the inspiration of thomas the tank engine. and now they have been scraped.<;-(

[Scruffdogspot]

sad so sad

[MegaTrainfreak]

i feel sorry for those engines.

[MrPetrolhead09]

@MegaTrainfreak Your not the only one ;-(

[jesslyra]

oh wow! Cant believe that thats the Braunton AND 5553 there!!! I just cant believe that steam locos were abandonded like that just to make way for electric trains. I wish I could have seen the scrapyard.

Yes, Hi, I am a WSR girl too

[taffytank]

Amazing memories

Have a look at my Barry photography webesite on FLICKR

Taffytank Barry scrapyard

[darkelfproductions]

the good news is that they have been all saved

[pumper8032]

Thankyou for this video, if it wasn't for a twist of fate and the fact the wagons were easier to cut up first we might never have saved as many loco's as this, I can't believe how badly these once proud loco's deteriorated in such a few years, but thankfully a lot are now back in steam.

[HitchinTrains]

Those dedicated steam enthusiasts... kept steam alive.

[TRAINHEAD247]

Great video I really wish I was around in the heyday of steam, the good old days : ) excellent video really moving.

[steamloco203]

The reason "Nearer my God to thee" is associated with the Titanic is because the ships band played the song as the ship was sinking knowing there was no room for them in the lifeboats.. All that aside...Of the 297 engines that came through Barry 213 were saved which is remarkable.

[DaRkCaBoOdLe137]

:-(

[ShaurntheSheep]

if it wern't for Dai woodham there wouldn't half the engines there is now

[HoorayforOliver]

If I'd had the money, and had lived near there about 30-40 years ago, I'd have bought each and every one of these brilliant machines.

Such a shame. It's such a sad fate, and even sadder to know that these engines put in years of hard work, earned people money, and are so beautiful to look at, and then to end up, mistreated, rusty and lonely in the scrapyard.

Thank god most of these beautiful machines where saved.

[Marillionmad]

Apparently, i've heard from someone, that his still got some engines, waiting.

[tomstertoaster]

that is just upsetting!!!

[imautuber444]

To think when I was a kid me and my mates used to play engine drivers in this scrappy, what's more the owners new and didn't care. could you imagine being aloud to do that nowadays. Great vid and so glad so many of them were saved.

[bluefirexd12]

I hate america's trains. i love the british ones.....

[loghead19]

R.I.P

let those that did not survive never be forgotten

[G7NDJ]

you post some good dvd`s on here , i am just wondering what the dvd is called so i can order one from you ,the music is just right

[trainlover658]

any of these engines in steam since these recordings?

[Paraffinmeister]

@trainlover658 Yep, pretty much all of them fetured in this video have either been restored or are being restored. The only big excetions to that are 92045 which was cut up and 48518 which has been broken up to provide parts for various other projects.

[irwellsteam]

@Paraffinmeister i think you mean 92245, and it hasn't been cut up. its stored in limbo with others in the barry 10. some people are saying the NRM will buy it as a Barry exhibit but for now there are now prospects.

[Paraffinmeister]

@irwellsteam Yeah, I realised shortly after I left that comment when I read about 92045 in Steam Railway a couple of days later. My bad.=P

[HoorayforOliver]

@trainlover658 Oh yes, most of them are. Some are still in the state they were as seen in this video, but all still have plans for restoration.

[trainlover658]

@HoorayforOliver some are planned to be broken up for other projects ._.

[stephenfan120]

are most of the steam trains there scarped or saved???

[silver760]

Thank god for Dai Woodham,if it wasn't for him steering his cutters away from the loco's and spending their time on old wagons,none of this would have been around long enough to save.

[MrTrainboy1]

when i go to barry scrap yard in 2 days is steal a steam train whistle or alot and find a way to hear their sound

[trainkid1]

:'( they were in such a hurry to get rid of steam on our mainlines and mallard hit over 125 which we are doing at the maximum in the most of the contrie theses days soo how have we upgraded ..

[gresleya3kid]

what a shame.

im 13 and i promice i will atemped to bring back steam.!

[sladedood]

This is one of, if not the most depressing video i have ever seen. I'm a massicve steam fan - so seeing steam engines in this state really gets me down :/

But there are some decent shots here and its nice that most of Barry's engines steamed again.

[kyle123481]

t is like the tanfield railways yard

[gresleya3kid]

yes !!!!

[MelonHeadFilmz]

two engines i saw in this video are now in the east lancs railway (35005 Shaw Savill and 34073 249 Squadron, both facing each other). To be honest, i don't think either will ever run again. They've never been restored, they're being cannibalised to provide parts for other engines of their class and they're slowly rusting away into the ground. its sad and something should be done, before we run out of time.

[theredraven]

There being sacrificed to keep their sisters running. A worthy fate if you ask me.

[thedreamtommylees]

@MelonHeadFilmz just found out the 35005 is now in the pipeline to be restored to mainline running.

[thedreamtommylees]

@MelonHeadFilmz just found out the 35009 shaw savill is now in the pipeline to be restored to mainline running.

[DADRENO]

6984 'Owsden Hall' - Modified Hall class mixed traffic locomotive, built 1948.

Owned by Trevor Westbury and under restoration at Toddington on the GWR.

Wheel arrangement: 4-6-0

Origin:

Great Western Railway. The Hall class was introduced by C B Collett in 1924, the prototype, no. 4900, was rebuilt from Saint class locomitve Saint Martin, production starting in 1928.

[and60007]

this scene makes me cry but im happy these steam locos are now saved for preservation with out the late dai woodham these steam locos would be gone for ever i dont like steam locos in scrap condition steam forever and rules!!!!!!!

[moodyblue41]

still remember the last days steam me playing on the fields  engines being pulled to the scrap yards in 3 and four at a time,

[ALCOPRO]

Could someone tell this Aussie what the "Patricroft" refers to on one of the buffer beams on one of the loco's and what has become of it please.

[PMDVD]

Patricroft was one of the last sheds to house the dwindling steam locos on BR in the late sixties - it was near Manchester.

[ipcress1066]

I went there as a boy in the early 1980s before the world went mad with health and safety. Wandering around and climbing over these sleeping leviathans. A great day.

[LNERfan]

It's nice to hear this song used outside a video about the Titanic. Don't get me wrong, those videos are fine, but this song is overly related to the Titanic.

[PMDVD]

Never saw the Titanic film this is just an appropriate hymn "Nearer My God To Thee".

[xfireballl5]

I was there in this year and took many still photo's. Glad that most of the engines made it back to steam with the dedication of many volunteers and fundraisers. Well done to all of them and through this, new generations will still be able to see and hear these workhorses from the past.

[dekz1000]

i remember doing barry in '66 . amazing place then, and went back in '77, spent hours in there, thanks for mem's

[bryemycaz]

Sad to see fine engines in this state. Though its good that Braunton and 5553 at least are now steaming once again.

[sladedood]

Braunton isn't quite steaming, although its almost at the end of its restoration :)

[andyg3]

still brings a tear to my eye

[tobyakirkby]

how many of the locos where saved from barry and home many where scraped

[shineonfloyd]

Most of them , i have a print out from 1966 which i took with me at that time and there were 201 locos on there.

[2329250]

this lad miss out scarp was £ 200 a ton a last year now it is £30 a ton thanks to brown the clown and new labour . keep it till this lot are kick out all best from yorkshire

[trainboy94]

Is Barry Scrapyard still there???? but with diesels rusting away???

[DADRENO]

NO it closed

[Traceymermaid]

Barry Scrap yard, music I think 'Abide with me'..... so moving am sat here in tears, I remember the yard in the 70s, and Newton Heath another mortuary for steam....

[radeakins]

It's Nearer my God to thee. Unfortunately, its also the soundtrack to a long gone and sadly missed era.

[LMSStanier]

Thanks for posting this and catagorising the engines there. It's such a shame. Still, the scrapyard did well out of it either way.

[SimonTacey]

it is 92245 not 92045

[SodorProductions]

gah, how depressing!

[andyg3]

poor things, once grand and powerful living things, left to die. Thank goodens people saved some of them, but some were not so lucky.

May i ask what the music used is?

[burnout300991]

A fantastic movie just thinking that so many were saved is great and its a shame that many didn't make it in to preservation

[Lainiodurrant]

WOW, what a moving video!

[Engineer5344]

im crying just from watching

[govan44]

Such a shame!