'Barry Scrapyard Sleeping Giants' - Painting by Robin Pinnock

A scene at the famous yard at Barry with Unrebuilt Bulleid Pacific Manston in the foreground.

This is available as a print for framing 15" by 10".
A jigsaw is available of the same scene which has 1000 pieces to it.

‘The Legend of Barry Scrapyard’ - The Legacy of Woodham Bros. Yard at Barry

Fifty years after the start of engines arriving for scrap and twenty years after the last of 213 locomotives departed from the famous Woodham's yard at Barry, this film looks at the way in which Barry changed the railway preservation map of Britain. An interview with the late Dai Woodham reveals the background to the whole miracle which started in 1959 with the first five engines arriving from Swindon. Nearly 300 were eventually bought for scrapping, but 213 escaped from the yard to begin the preservation boom in the UK.
We see rare photographs from the Woodham family archive which show the beginnings of the scrap business in the redundant coal sidings at Barry docks. Archive films show the locomotives filling the yards to capacity before they started to depart. Film of the 'Barry 10' and of the future for a regeneration scheme for the dock area which includes the re-building of several engines at the Great Western Society at Didcot and at Llangollen into long-lost types, such as a 'Grange', 'Saint' and 'County'
Altogether the complete story of this remarkable event in railway history.

'The Barry Story' incorporating 'The Barry List - Edition 10'

* One of the most important stories in railway preservation is told in this complete volume in paperback form.

* Full of photographs from the archives including many never seen before in the Woodham family collection.

* Includes the story of how the small town of Barry in South Wales became the centre of interest in the preserving of ex-BR steam locomotives.

* Background history of Barry including the development of the port and the coal export trade.

* Full account of all the locomotives at Barry, including those scrapped over the 30 year period and those 213 which escaped to preservation.

Altogether, the complete Barry story in one publication.

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