Only 100 or more locks were scrapped, the rest sold and restored. He reason so little were scrapped is that they had too much rolling stock, truck and coaches, plus they didn't know how to ACTUALLY cut up a steamer.
5 of these locomotives went to my hometown of blaeanvon about 40 miles from barry, 4 of those been sold on and 1 been kept and is slowly being restored
A lot of those loco's had many miles left in them. Just putting them there to rust is just plain sad. But you can smile in happiness and in hope when you see 'SOLD' on the side.
I remember going there in about 1982 and getting permission to look around. A memorable day. And to thing that many of the rusting hulks I saw that day are now back in working order is incredible
@DBUP4014 On your topic of steam engines Britain is a small island that needs a fast rail network with mid length trains so we have powerful fast engines where as america is a big country and needs very powerful engiens to pull good over 1000s of miles with the expensive of speed. DOnt know why people have become so upaty about this its a fact. Also 0-6-0 tank engines were only used as yard shunter they were never really used to haul passenger trains on the mainline lol.
@theredraven Not everything...can any of your dwarfs...pul 150 LOADED freight cars up a mountain at a constant 50 MPH by ITSELF! Well our engines can...Can any of your engines climb Steep 4% grades with 20 sleeper cars at 60 MPH by ITSELF.
Yes actally they can go back a few years the the steam ara well at least for the first one the Union Pacific Big Boy...and the Genasis Diesel can pull 20 or 19 sleepers on a 3.75% grade at 60 MPH....SO MAYBE YOU SHOULD DO MORE RESEARCH ON AMERICAN LOCO'S!
Bust my Buffers....LOL! You mean them little things like thomas....One Big Boy WILL Do the trick....of 6 tank engines Just admit OUR engines ARE MORE powerful and yours are faster....AND AMERICAN ENGINES ARE BETTER!
I can't admit they're faster when mine hold all the records (the highest UNOFFICIAL diesel speed was Russian btw). I can't admit they're more powerful when most of these epic long traisn you talk of had more than one locomotive plus the (9F would give them a run for their money). I can't admit they're better when popular opinion thinks otherwise.
Although Thomas was based off an exceptionally small tank engine. The US & US have built rather big ones, as have France, Germany etc.
@dreamland66 Yes but our railroads have a much more of a rich history connecting a dieing and civil wared nation our RR's brought us together! It seems we americans revolutionized how railroads are today, along with chocolate and canned food etc.
@theredraven Oh and May i ask the speed of the steam engine...I may be able to prove you wrong....and a Acela Express Holds the record here for speed but a steam engine is only a FEW off like 35 MPH.
only if wee got done with diesels instead yeh steam is looked slow and not techologicly advanced enough for the modern world but its less harmfull to the enviroment
Who cares about which one is less harmful? Trains have almost zero effect on the enviroment anyway.
Trains are designed to go from A to B. I love steam trains, I really do, but please accept the fact that diesels are easier to maintain, cheaper and don't require all the infrastrcuture (turntables, water & coaling towers, ash pits etc).
Its only a very special type of person that can give an inanimate mechanical object a gender, a name, a personality, tend to its every needs, lavish it with love and affection and therefor bring it to life, after all, its great to be alive...
@TheSteamdriver The loco on my video barry scrap yard is a loco that I believe was owned by Thamesdown Borough Council, Now Swindon Borough Council. I am sure Roger Hardinghams Barry list will contain the detail.
good song to go with the video but if it was me I would have chosen Who Wants To Live Forever by Queen or We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn or The Touch by Stan Bush or the Mission Impossible theme
Which is why electric Class 91's can do the Kings Cross to Edinburgh run in three and a half hours yet a steam engine took something closer to seven hours.
What was that about power? An electric Class 91 holds the record for the ECML route, not a steam engine.
An electric Class 90 pulls the longest passenger train in Britain, the Caledonian Sleeper, with 16 coaches (the large Mk 4 and Mk 3 variety).
Do you not think it's a bit boring just limiting yourself to steam? You've got one of the most wonderful rail networks in the world in terms of what's run on it, from steam to diesels, electrics to experimental types.
It's why I love the transition era, seeing all those might steamers and diesels on the same line.
I do like the 321's or w/e they are, and BR's DMU's I have a Bachmann 108 DMU my self on my layout. But Steam was the locomotion I was immieditly introduced to. and I do like some of the high speed desials and electrics, but the designs just bore me. Thats what I like about trains, the engineering thats gone into them.
@theredraven You make me laugh! Here in the states! LOL! Our Steamers still hold horse power records! Our steams make British steamers well look small...Take the Union Pacific Big Boy 6500 HP... and the Electric Acela 6000 HP the most powerful nonsteamer in the states!
well it depends on the company just think the LNER mallard was made purely for speed it averaged 90/100mph with 10 to 15 light wooden coaches light wooden coaches.
The GWR king's were made for average speed of 80mph with a 20/24 coach trains!
The former Norfolk and Western "J"class had a top speed of 118 with 16 heavyweight coaches!
The Former New York Central Dreyfuss Hudson Could pull 13 heavy passenger coaches from New York City to Chicago in 16 hours (A new record at the time)
yeh but was that a constant speed or what it reached for a small amount of time and was it on a hill with a heavy train? im on about averages not top speed to kill the engine
Boy You just can't get a long with anyone who likes steam engines....and your a European....Here everyone is attracted to our long trains and wtf does herny ford have to do with anything...we like POWER! You don't...Not my problem ok....
Well once again do your research on american locos. THIS IS NOT OUTRAGEOUS. Its an old saying...the first 4000's (4-8-8-4 wheel arangement know to us as Big Boys) was built in October of 1945...right before we enter the war...ok....that series never STOPPED they were our source of power they could move long trains of supplies in record time....So after the war...The used the saying...The Big Boy won us the war..some think its true...I do...I can't change what you believe
@Marillionmad You're more right than you know. The Pensylvania RailRoad in the US had a special Steam Locomtive called the Q2 Frieght Duplex. It was the most powerful locomotive ever built, more powerful than any modern diesel Electric.
this is really upsetting :( seeing as there alot more beautiful than the modern diesels, and alot of them were fine and able to run, there was alot more passsion and love in running a loco, seeing as in a new diesel, you basically push a lever to speed up and pull one to slow down, its boring compared to running a steam loco :(
What Eases the pain a lot is the fact that most of the 200 or so locos shown in this vid have been restored. but for the grace of Dia Woodham this would not have happed
the worst part is that most of these loco's were in perfect condition, its a shame that so many of these historic beast were slaughered by the scrapper's torch.
That was British Rail's fault for having a fetish for trying to build the "perfect steam engine".
Even before the war, the "Big Four" had already began to move towards diesel & electrification. Obviously this concept passed BR by and meant they spent tons buying steam engines that only ran for at most, about 10 years when instead they could have had Deltics and such earlier.
So sad to see those "magnificent machines" being torn apart after so many long years of loyal service - ah well thats progress .......... yeh right !! I had the pleasure of working on many of the locos when I was a firman on the GWR in the 50/60s........great memorys - never to be forgotton.
There is a loco left in Barry Scrap Yard. it is a BR Standard 9F, the land and the loco are now owned by the council as Die Woodham passed on in 1994. I think they might sell it if you make an offer.
It is good to think that most of the Locos in Barry scrapyard were never actually scrapped! You can find a good selection of them restored & running again! NOt so Cashmores of Newport .. they cut things up almost the day after the fire had been dropped!
I went to Barry Scrapyard in about 1971. It was a BR 'Seaside Special' to the funfair! It cost just 50p return from Walton-on-Thames - to Waterloo, via underground to Paddington and onwards pulled by a Brush, I think. Anyway, a brilliant deal(50p!)and day out with me mates, but so sad to see the old hulks. rotting.. Got loads of steamers would never have seen in their glory days though. Soon after this time, I discovered girls and football! Still have my 'combined volumes' somewhere though...
But there was a story i was told about in about 1972 up north it snowed like a blizzard for 24 hours, and the diesels could not get through the snow, so thye started getting all these steam locos out the scrap yard, putting a fire and water in them, and going off to help the diesels and melt the snow.
@andyg3 Well I am presenting a ZERO emision (besides water vapor) Steam engine to the union Pacific(American)Railroad...but it could bring diesels down FOREVER.
This engine is cheap...very you are determined to spoil a 13 years aren't I never knew that some british people have such attitudes....and we are one of the highest superpowers in the world and they say...The union pacific big boy had won us the war being released just months before...imagine what could have happen with out our "overkill" engines WE COULD HAVE LOST WWII...So you can watch your mouth with you "tiny toy tank engines"
Look, now you're just being absurd, there is no way one class of steam locomotive had an effect on the outcome of WWII. Unless FDR had been an idiot it's doubtful the US could have lost WWII.
However you must note that some of these loco's, to this day are making it out of this scrap yard and put back on to the line again asas dreamland66 said.
They werent scrapped at what they were designed to do. Its just that they were taken over by a new breed of iron horse (If you can even call them that >_O )
dear god, how can people just let them rust to bits like that.
they are the work horses of britain.
to think that they used to be everywhere, in grand liveries, shineing paint and brass. people took pride in them back then.
but nowa days the railways are crap, gloomy stations, health and saftey stops alot of fun. boring trains, an electric has no sound except a whiring sound, boring. and i despise diesels.
So sad to see so many historic steam locomotives left to rot, alot of these locomotives look like they could be restored without any problems! Sad to see so much history left to die in the scrap yard. All of those beautiful locomotives should be restored and returned to service.
AAAA.281235Z MAR 2008 I could comment on every video at the wonderful heritage we did away with...Travelling is not the same now days The world of badly lit stations, slam doors, platform tickets 1d .....Who wants to travel at 100`s of miles per hour !! Still progress dear boy !!...Thank you to everyone who has posted our lost heritage on YouTube.......AR.
Look at them. Its not really a sense of dead, but sense of want. Its like they want to be firead and run again. They truley are just more than machines. they really are.
This place looks like hell to me; I can't see steamers rusting, all their might and elegance slowly fading away!
When I was 12 or 13 years old my mother presented me with a book named 'Endstation'. It covered the decline of railways in rural areas in Germany throughout the sixties,seventies and eighties, concluding in photos showing steam-locos being dissected by men with cutting torches...; well that was a very sad christmas-eve for me. These photos were like stills from a splatter movie.
Only 100 or more locks were scrapped, the rest sold and restored. He reason so little were scrapped is that they had too much rolling stock, truck and coaches, plus they didn't know how to ACTUALLY cut up a steamer.
MrTrainboy1 1 month ago
theres one thing steam has above any modern loco it has soul
MrM4ttyf 5 months ago
@MrM4ttyf
Oh, yes. Fully agree.
Diesel / electrics are just boring double ended boxes which emit polluting, carcenogenic fumes.
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florianska6 1 month ago
I am a train lover and this video is really sad
martinstroetinga 5 months ago
If I recall the most powerful was the Big Boy.
TrainChaser2224 6 months ago
1:18, Stainer 8F 48151, now happily preserved :)
class37trash 7 months ago
cant wait to see sheds in this state :D
bwarrrrk 11 months ago
5 of these locomotives went to my hometown of blaeanvon about 40 miles from barry, 4 of those been sold on and 1 been kept and is slowly being restored
nov3019892008 1 year ago
This wonderful clip makes me,nevertheless,extremely sad.
Squarerig 1 year ago
A lot of those loco's had many miles left in them. Just putting them there to rust is just plain sad. But you can smile in happiness and in hope when you see 'SOLD' on the side.
xAnToZx 1 year ago
Sorry folks, but the gay music makes this hard to watch. Cool shots, however.
hootenzie 1 year ago
I remember going there in about 1982 and getting permission to look around. A memorable day. And to thing that many of the rusting hulks I saw that day are now back in working order is incredible
stashyjon 1 year ago
I used to know the Scrapyard family when I lived in Glamorganshire in the 1970's, though I never got to meet Barry
Strawberry7Lynn 1 year ago
at0:46 did i spy a GWR Castle Class?
MrTrainboy1 1 year ago
8151 at 1:19 :D
EastMidlandsSteam 1 year ago
@EastMidlandsSteam gay
1position69 1 year ago
Yep,.Bloody Conservative bloody party.
GavinS1965 1 year ago
they never gave some of the standerd steam engines to regain their investment, i recon thats the route of the problems we've got today...
trainlover658 1 year ago
Wow, running off wires. We can do that too.
The British Rail Class 373 (Eurostar) set a speed of 208mph. Maybe the Acela needs to accelerate?
theredraven 2 years ago
Oh it can but doesn't we have not dedicated route....so the speed limit is 160....
DBUP4014 2 years ago
The Eurostar uses mainly normal routes apart from the undersea tunnel.
theredraven 2 years ago
@DBUP4014 On your topic of steam engines Britain is a small island that needs a fast rail network with mid length trains so we have powerful fast engines where as america is a big country and needs very powerful engiens to pull good over 1000s of miles with the expensive of speed. DOnt know why people have become so upaty about this its a fact. Also 0-6-0 tank engines were only used as yard shunter they were never really used to haul passenger trains on the mainline lol.
1position69 1 year ago
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DBUP4014 2 years ago
Sorry, it must hurt to know it beat out all the stuff you built bar the Acela.
theredraven 2 years ago
@theredraven Not everything...can any of your dwarfs...pul 150 LOADED freight cars up a mountain at a constant 50 MPH by ITSELF! Well our engines can...Can any of your engines climb Steep 4% grades with 20 sleeper cars at 60 MPH by ITSELF.
DBUP4014 2 years ago
No and neither can any of yours.
The longest freight train in the world was 600 cars and needed 9 electrical and 7 diesel locomotives.
There was a 500 car coal train in the US once that needed 6 diesels to move it.
If you mean the Horseshow Curve trains by the way, they also use several diesel units.
theredraven 2 years ago
Yes actally they can go back a few years the the steam ara well at least for the first one the Union Pacific Big Boy...and the Genasis Diesel can pull 20 or 19 sleepers on a 3.75% grade at 60 MPH....SO MAYBE YOU SHOULD DO MORE RESEARCH ON AMERICAN LOCO'S!
DBUP4014 2 years ago
Maybe they should have just had a few tank engines do it instead. Much cheaper.
theredraven 2 years ago
Bust my Buffers....LOL! You mean them little things like thomas....One Big Boy WILL Do the trick....of 6 tank engines Just admit OUR engines ARE MORE powerful and yours are faster....AND AMERICAN ENGINES ARE BETTER!
DBUP4014 2 years ago
I can't admit they're faster when mine hold all the records (the highest UNOFFICIAL diesel speed was Russian btw). I can't admit they're more powerful when most of these epic long traisn you talk of had more than one locomotive plus the (9F would give them a run for their money). I can't admit they're better when popular opinion thinks otherwise.
Although Thomas was based off an exceptionally small tank engine. The US & US have built rather big ones, as have France, Germany etc.
theredraven 2 years ago
@theredraven Maybe Horse Power is better than speed....
DBUP4014 2 years ago
A passenger train is supposed to get me from A to B quickly.
Not show off how many coaches it can pull.
theredraven 2 years ago
In the states we have a MUCH larger population WE NEED TO TRANSPORT MORE people.....
DBUP4014 2 years ago
Yeah so build more fast trains rather than overkill long ones.
God gave you two arms, two legs and Henry Ford for a reason.
theredraven 2 years ago
Actually in 1950 Britain had twice as many locos, carriages and waggons our rail mileage was not far behind either.
dreamland66 1 year ago
@dreamland66 Yes but our railroads have a much more of a rich history connecting a dieing and civil wared nation our RR's brought us together! It seems we americans revolutionized how railroads are today, along with chocolate and canned food etc.
DBUP4014 1 year ago
@DBUP4014 whoops i forgot the computer too, oh wait we invented that...
DBUP4014 1 year ago
@theredraven Oh and May i ask the speed of the steam engine...I may be able to prove you wrong....and a Acela Express Holds the record here for speed but a steam engine is only a FEW off like 35 MPH.
DBUP4014 2 years ago
A4 Pacific "Mallard" No 4468 holds the world steam speed record with a top speed of 126mph recorded in 1938.
The British Rail Class 43 HST holds the official world speed record for a diesel locomotive at 147.88mph.
The rail speed record in Britain overall is hled by the Gas Turbine powered APT-E which clocked 152.3mph.
theredraven 2 years ago
only if wee got done with diesels instead yeh steam is looked slow and not techologicly advanced enough for the modern world but its less harmfull to the enviroment
GWR4079 2 years ago
Who cares about which one is less harmful? Trains have almost zero effect on the enviroment anyway.
Trains are designed to go from A to B. I love steam trains, I really do, but please accept the fact that diesels are easier to maintain, cheaper and don't require all the infrastrcuture (turntables, water & coaling towers, ash pits etc).
theredraven 2 years ago
@theredraven Not to sound rude but...I have a ZERO emision steam engine proposal for the AMERICAN railroads that I am preparing...
DBUP4014 2 years ago
Its only a very special type of person that can give an inanimate mechanical object a gender, a name, a personality, tend to its every needs, lavish it with love and affection and therefor bring it to life, after all, its great to be alive...
teamfab 2 years ago
one at 1:22 looks like you could fire it up and drive it away
mmikeironhorse 2 years ago
history sitting in a scrapyard kind of sad
mmikeironhorse 2 years ago
do you the number of the engine in 0:42 dreamland66?
TheSteamdriver 2 years ago
@TheSteamdriver The loco on my video barry scrap yard is a loco that I believe was owned by Thamesdown Borough Council, Now Swindon Borough Council. I am sure Roger Hardinghams Barry list will contain the detail.
dreamland66 1 year ago
good song to go with the video but if it was me I would have chosen Who Wants To Live Forever by Queen or We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn or The Touch by Stan Bush or the Mission Impossible theme
TheSteamdriver 2 years ago
Theres one thing that steam has that electric does not. Power.
Marillionmad 2 years ago 5
it also has incredible beauty, don't forget that
MelonHeadFilmz 2 years ago
Which is why electric Class 91's can do the Kings Cross to Edinburgh run in three and a half hours yet a steam engine took something closer to seven hours.
What was that about power? An electric Class 91 holds the record for the ECML route, not a steam engine.
theredraven 2 years ago
Thats speed not power.
Marillionmad 2 years ago
A rake of about 8 or 9 Mk4 coaches is a heavy load.
Plus, have you never seen clips of Class 86's, 87's and 90's towing frieght? They pull that stuff fast despite how heavy it is.
theredraven 2 years ago
A steamer could pull twice the load, I've seen steamers pull about 12 - 15 coaches, and still keep up a high speed.
PS I dont even no what a class 86, 87 or 90 is, I am a steam man XD lol
Marillionmad 2 years ago
An electric Class 90 pulls the longest passenger train in Britain, the Caledonian Sleeper, with 16 coaches (the large Mk 4 and Mk 3 variety).
Do you not think it's a bit boring just limiting yourself to steam? You've got one of the most wonderful rail networks in the world in terms of what's run on it, from steam to diesels, electrics to experimental types.
It's why I love the transition era, seeing all those might steamers and diesels on the same line.
theredraven 2 years ago
I do like the 321's or w/e they are, and BR's DMU's I have a Bachmann 108 DMU my self on my layout. But Steam was the locomotion I was immieditly introduced to. and I do like some of the high speed desials and electrics, but the designs just bore me. Thats what I like about trains, the engineering thats gone into them.
Marillionmad 2 years ago
@theredraven You make me laugh! Here in the states! LOL! Our Steamers still hold horse power records! Our steams make British steamers well look small...Take the Union Pacific Big Boy 6500 HP... and the Electric Acela 6000 HP the most powerful nonsteamer in the states!
DBUP4014 2 years ago
yeh america went for pure power wee went for speed
GWR4079 2 years ago
@GWR4079 No not really We went for both...we had a very different fleat of steamers comparied to Europe...We have some VERY fast steamers here to...
DBUP4014 2 years ago
well it depends on the company just think the LNER mallard was made purely for speed it averaged 90/100mph with 10 to 15 light wooden coaches light wooden coaches.
The GWR king's were made for average speed of 80mph with a 20/24 coach trains!
its the same with goods engines
GWR4079 2 years ago
Oh yes...
The former Norfolk and Western "J"class had a top speed of 118 with 16 heavyweight coaches!
The Former New York Central Dreyfuss Hudson Could pull 13 heavy passenger coaches from New York City to Chicago in 16 hours (A new record at the time)
DBUP4014 2 years ago
yeh but was that a constant speed or what it reached for a small amount of time and was it on a hill with a heavy train? im on about averages not top speed to kill the engine
GWR4079 2 years ago
Yes both trains had water level routes...so those are constant speeds
DBUP4014 2 years ago
Boy You just can't get a long with anyone who likes steam engines....and your a European....Here everyone is attracted to our long trains and wtf does herny ford have to do with anything...we like POWER! You don't...Not my problem ok....
DBUP4014 2 years ago
Henry Ford mass produced cars. You should buy one one day.
And what does "get long" mean? You mean demolish your arguments?
theredraven 2 years ago
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DBUP4014 2 years ago
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Well once again do your research on american locos. THIS IS NOT OUTRAGEOUS. Its an old saying...the first 4000's (4-8-8-4 wheel arangement know to us as Big Boys) was built in October of 1945...right before we enter the war...ok....that series never STOPPED they were our source of power they could move long trains of supplies in record time....So after the war...The used the saying...The Big Boy won us the war..some think its true...I do...I can't change what you believe
DBUP4014 2 years ago
@Marillionmad no its not "power"... its Raw power, strength, Beauty
MrTrainboy1 1 year ago
@Marillionmad You're more right than you know. The Pensylvania RailRoad in the US had a special Steam Locomtive called the Q2 Frieght Duplex. It was the most powerful locomotive ever built, more powerful than any modern diesel Electric.
priceman141 7 months ago
Good to see that some of the locos that went to die at Barry were given an 11th hour reprieve by preservationists.
vonpork 2 years ago 2
i wouldn't say some.... over 200 loco's were saved from barry... only 100 were scrapped...
RamzyJB666 2 years ago
Old friends with hearts of steel, steam and raging passion, a pulse that makes our blood coarse and grown men cry.
teamfab 2 years ago 3
What a beautiful sentiment.
Marillionmad 2 years ago 3
Why thank you.
teamfab 2 years ago
this is really upsetting :( seeing as there alot more beautiful than the modern diesels, and alot of them were fine and able to run, there was alot more passsion and love in running a loco, seeing as in a new diesel, you basically push a lever to speed up and pull one to slow down, its boring compared to running a steam loco :(
maestegu14 2 years ago 4
All these magestic designs, gone to waste
Marillionmad 2 years ago
What Eases the pain a lot is the fact that most of the 200 or so locos shown in this vid have been restored. but for the grace of Dia Woodham this would not have happed
7607987600 2 years ago
You should make a sequel with engines being restored.
P.S. I just flooded my room =(
ludwigviper4468 2 years ago
200 locos turned back from wrecks to runners, as Dai himself once said "pure magic"
fgh456pc 2 years ago 8
At 1:50, the two engines look like they have faces and they are sad.
andrexiostudios 2 years ago
moving im in tears.
AndyFisher142 2 years ago 3
2:26 at least that front steam engine went out with dignaty
Trek001 2 years ago 3
the worst part is that most of these loco's were in perfect condition, its a shame that so many of these historic beast were slaughered by the scrapper's torch.
hella188 2 years ago
so right. they should have just stop making them
loghead19 2 years ago
That was British Rail's fault for having a fetish for trying to build the "perfect steam engine".
Even before the war, the "Big Four" had already began to move towards diesel & electrification. Obviously this concept passed BR by and meant they spent tons buying steam engines that only ran for at most, about 10 years when instead they could have had Deltics and such earlier.
theredraven 2 years ago
Nice find, 5*
ay76 3 years ago
*****
ubuibiok 2 years ago
Sad but a good vid
laarbruch10 3 years ago 3
*****
ubuibiok 2 years ago
So sad to see those "magnificent machines" being torn apart after so many long years of loyal service - ah well thats progress .......... yeh right !! I had the pleasure of working on many of the locos when I was a firman on the GWR in the 50/60s........great memorys - never to be forgotton.
dvdhttn 3 years ago 2
The song is perfect! It gives this video a really "Cold" mood to it.
Driverman2008 3 years ago
the engine at 2:30 should have been saved...as there are no survivors of the patriot class:(
so sad...it brought a tear to my eye as the music fitted so well.
if only there were still engines at barry...i would go and buy one...they have all been sold and scrapped tho:(:(
bennymilk 3 years ago 2
I dont think there are.
But i think there is a group who are planning to build, or are building one.
andyg3 3 years ago
yer i no htere is a group building one a bit like the a1 tornado trust
bennymilk 3 years ago
There is a loco left in Barry Scrap Yard. it is a BR Standard 9F, the land and the loco are now owned by the council as Die Woodham passed on in 1994. I think they might sell it if you make an offer.
NSMerryweather4771 2 years ago
@NSMerryweather4771 The 9f is to go to the NRM as an exhibit to tell all about the Barry Story!
dreamland66 1 year ago
sad very sad
RPSI1718541864613BG 3 years ago
great shots thanks for sharing
rammergramps 3 years ago
It is good to think that most of the Locos in Barry scrapyard were never actually scrapped! You can find a good selection of them restored & running again! NOt so Cashmores of Newport .. they cut things up almost the day after the fire had been dropped!
metadyneman 3 years ago
Anyone got some movies of Barry?
DADRENO 3 years ago
I went to Barry Scrapyard in about 1971. It was a BR 'Seaside Special' to the funfair! It cost just 50p return from Walton-on-Thames - to Waterloo, via underground to Paddington and onwards pulled by a Brush, I think. Anyway, a brilliant deal(50p!)and day out with me mates, but so sad to see the old hulks. rotting.. Got loads of steamers would never have seen in their glory days though. Soon after this time, I discovered girls and football! Still have my 'combined volumes' somewhere though...
snotmale 3 years ago
very goog pics.but so sad that all that history of when england bade the best thinds in the world were just cut up 4 scrap
iambigbore 3 years ago
But there was a story i was told about in about 1972 up north it snowed like a blizzard for 24 hours, and the diesels could not get through the snow, so thye started getting all these steam locos out the scrap yard, putting a fire and water in them, and going off to help the diesels and melt the snow.
You cant beat steam
andyg3 3 years ago
write a leter to the BRITHSH GOV TO PUT THEY LOCOS BAKE IN SEVCIE BECOUSE THER BETER THEN THE DESLES
gen456789 3 years ago
Sounds like a good idea, but with all this global warming crap and eco worriers, you woodnt be alowd to burn coal regularly
andyg3 3 years ago
@andyg3 Well I am presenting a ZERO emision (besides water vapor) Steam engine to the union Pacific(American)Railroad...but it could bring diesels down FOREVER.
DBUP4014 2 years ago
I'm think it's a safe bet that companies will keep their cheap smelly diesels actually. Money talks.
theredraven 2 years ago
This engine is cheap...very you are determined to spoil a 13 years aren't I never knew that some british people have such attitudes....and we are one of the highest superpowers in the world and they say...The union pacific big boy had won us the war being released just months before...imagine what could have happen with out our "overkill" engines WE COULD HAVE LOST WWII...So you can watch your mouth with you "tiny toy tank engines"
DBUP4014 2 years ago
Look, now you're just being absurd, there is no way one class of steam locomotive had an effect on the outcome of WWII. Unless FDR had been an idiot it's doubtful the US could have lost WWII.
theredraven 2 years ago
@DBUP4014 listen if you insult another engine agine i'll push you of of a cliff
Big1unionpacific 1 year ago
its a shame to see all the locomotives in grave condition and being scraped.
Muthafacko2 3 years ago
***** Great video
ubuibiok 3 years ago
Veddy, veddy sad indeed D:
However you must note that some of these loco's, to this day are making it out of this scrap yard and put back on to the line again asas dreamland66 said.
They werent scrapped at what they were designed to do. Its just that they were taken over by a new breed of iron horse (If you can even call them that >_O )
WhyAyeMann 3 years ago
Broken bloody-hearted.
squilky1951 3 years ago
whats has become of the barry scrap yard nowa days
andyg3 3 years ago
all locos and lines gone,waste ground now,even dai woodham has gone
porno6361 3 years ago
there is a 9F still there!
NSMerryweather4771 2 years ago
To all of you PLEASE NOTE many of these locos in the last few years have made it out of the scrapyard and are in fact running !! So no sadness eh?
dreamland66 3 years ago
quite sad...
Gotthard68 3 years ago
dear god, how can people just let them rust to bits like that.
they are the work horses of britain.
to think that they used to be everywhere, in grand liveries, shineing paint and brass. people took pride in them back then.
but nowa days the railways are crap, gloomy stations, health and saftey stops alot of fun. boring trains, an electric has no sound except a whiring sound, boring. and i despise diesels.
andyg3 3 years ago
So sad to see so many historic steam locomotives left to rot, alot of these locomotives look like they could be restored without any problems! Sad to see so much history left to die in the scrap yard. All of those beautiful locomotives should be restored and returned to service.
Great video.
hoscaletrains500 3 years ago
AAAA.281312Z MAR 2008 Thank you to all the railway preservation people; Keep it up....AR.
fourwayscottage 3 years ago
AAAA.281235Z MAR 2008 I could comment on every video at the wonderful heritage we did away with...Travelling is not the same now days The world of badly lit stations, slam doors, platform tickets 1d .....Who wants to travel at 100`s of miles per hour !! Still progress dear boy !!...Thank you to everyone who has posted our lost heritage on YouTube.......AR.
fourwayscottage 3 years ago
Look at them. Its not really a sense of dead, but sense of want. Its like they want to be firead and run again. They truley are just more than machines. they really are.
DarkTower97 4 years ago
This place looks like hell to me; I can't see steamers rusting, all their might and elegance slowly fading away!
When I was 12 or 13 years old my mother presented me with a book named 'Endstation'. It covered the decline of railways in rural areas in Germany throughout the sixties,seventies and eighties, concluding in photos showing steam-locos being dissected by men with cutting torches...; well that was a very sad christmas-eve for me. These photos were like stills from a splatter movie.
palomino1973 4 years ago
Rust In Pieces
ab5010 4 years ago
I loved this place as a kid.
ANDYOVHULL 4 years ago