Barry Scrapyard Loco's Then and Now

Barry scrapyard loco's then and now. We take a look at a small selection of the 213 locomotives saved from the Woodham brothers scrapyard in Barry South Wales. The video shows a picture of the loco during its stay in Barry followed by a video of the loco now back in steam and running.
pictures from www.railwayscenes.com
videos clips selected from my previous videos.
If you would like to know which video a certain clip came from please leave a comment of which loco and i will reply with the video title.
I created this video with the KZbin Video Editor ( / editor )

[@101jumpit]

A fitting tribute to all who restored these works of art to their former glory.Thank you all !!!!!

[@stevedoubleu99B]

Bubba Dee I was just about to say exactly the same thing.

[@JungleYT]

Warms my heart to see such caring and vision bringing these old relics back to life...

[@kineticrail]

JungleYT it is amazing what the volunteers at the heritage lines can do with a bit of determination and hard work.

[@Fcutdlady]

God bless the late Dai Woodham who owned the scrapyard. He didn't have to help preservationists but he did. in an interview he said it wasn't something he intended doing but the locomotives were left in the yard for longer. goods wagons were easier for his workers to scrap.

[@jeremyasher297]

@@kineticrail all those engines were saved?

[@kineticrail]

@@jeremyasher297 yes along with many more

[@jeremyasher297]

kinetic .rail why were they all saved?

[@MrNoUsername]

Simply amazing. After restoration, it looks like they never been to the scrapyard in the first place! I wish all these locos long life and good running!

[@bobcannell7603]

Went to Barry in 1977 and wandered around the lines and lines of rusty locos. It was a lifetime experience. I would never have imagined most of those wrecks would be reborn and still running again. 220 and more still being renovated. Amazing.

[@awizardalso]

I'm in the United States. I've loved steam locomotives since I was a young kid in the late 1950's. I'm happy to see many of them brought out of where they sat in parks for public view and brought back to life. What I love about steam locomotives is the complexity of what makes them work.

[@Eric-kw2bv]

I lot of dedication & love goes into restoring these old girls. A great great uncle of mine was a cabinet maker in the late 1800's - early 1900's. His job was building those beautiful old timber passenger carriages, many of which are still used or displayed today.

[@buddcarcook4655]

Who can thumbs down this?It’s incredible transformation from scrap to working steam! 👍🏻

[@JosinDroplet]

Some want to see trains cutup for their own amusement

[@davidantoniocamposbarros7528]

@@JosinDroplet and also because these people say steam engines pollute

[@mstevens832]

History and climate sad but they RIP

[@frankevett8119]

Someone who sells electric trains!

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@JosinDroplet I'm a scrapping enthusiast, and steam engines do pollute, it's a fact. But I'm also knowledgeable about steam preservation and rail history in general.

[@welshpete12]

What I think is remarkable , is when these groups of people went to the Barry scrap yard to buy these engines . They had not enough money , to do so . So they asked the owner to keep for them until they did . Sometimes it took years to do so , This was all by verbal agreement . Nothing was ever written down .

[@kineticrail]

welshpete12 dai woodham certainly understood what the preservationist were trying to achieve and did as much as he could to help them out

[@steeveedee8478]

It always used to depress me the stories of the engines being cut up at Barry - I had no idea quite so many of them were actually saved!

[@lawrencelewis8105]

@@steeveedee8478 Most all of them were saved. Woodham spent most of his time cutting up old freight cars and only scrapped a few steam engines.

[@beeble2003]

@@steeveedee8478 Yes, Woodham's received 297 steam locos but only scrapped 84 of them.

[@shengmin4741]

You

[@billdennis3681]

It's good to see them all saved and running.

[@garylangley4502]

Beautiful restorations. 2 thumbs way up for all the hard work.

[@tamar5261]

I used to play on those old engines when I was a kid, I knew they were special even at a young age, great to see these restoration.

[@welshwizard822]

From an era when people had pride in their job and the whole railway network was owned by the nation. I miss steam and if not for a few dedicated societies all would be lost forever

[@FrederickTheAnon14W]

@KZbinINCLUSIVITYWHATAJOKE "Not particularly female friendly" Women are on a lot of heritage lines operating locomotives alongside the Men just as much, The whole Women thing has nothing to do with the decline of Steam in Britain in favor of dieselization so please don't bring your woke nonsense into it.

[@wendyharper9454]

Wonderful engines and brilliant restorers - thanks to them all. It isn't a question of nostalgia - just beauty and sheer personality.

[@PaulBriden]

Its a shame a lot of these old locos were not in town centres or outside schools or stations rather than just being scrapped. Billy Butlins and Barry's the country owes a great deal of debt to.

[@beeble2003]

It is strange how few steam locomotives were put on static display. In the US, it seems that many small towns have an old steam locomotive on display, whereas there are very few in the UK, except in museums. I suspect it's because they were largely regarded as out-of-date old rubbish when they were taken out of service and "Welcome to Anytown, site of this old piece of junk!" wasn't the image places were trying to project. Today, they'd be much better received, but you'd need to time-machine them here from the 1960s.

[@Uftonwood2]

Great illustrative video showing that these engines were beyond mere preservation, but have been re-built and with many new parts needed and made from scratch. That all this work on so many engines has been achieved by volunteers should be recognised by a generous gesture from government (out representatives) by say, having Network rail made responsible for the maintenance of the saved lines these splendid locomotives run along.

[@kineticrail]

Uftonwood2 thank you. Yes the heritage railway scene is now getting the recognition it deserves from the government in terms of the amount they put into the economy in the areas they serve.

[@rexluminus9867]

Thanks to BARRY scrapyard for their kindness! *****.Great people. I'm glad to see these steam locos in their new lives. 👍Beautiful video. Thank you v. much.

[@Lynx_Gamlng]

i Just wanner cry. I love steam locos and now there comming back. Its just warms everything to me. 😭😭

[@steveluckhurst2350]

English not your first language? You are forgiven.

[@rustyj5092]

One of the best things about living in Cardiff as a young teen in the 70`s was being able to get the train from Cardiff central to Barry Island with a couple of mates, spend 1/2 a day in the train yard climbing over the units, playing engine drivers ( no health and safety concerns then)then onto the island fairground for some rides, chips soaked in vinegar and doughnuts. Less than a £1 return fare if I remember correctly . I wouldn’t`t mind betting I`ve climbed over some of these beauties that have been restored to their former glory which is great to see ,and brings back some great memories, so many thanks for posting.

[@nicolasmanzo9654]

It's great yo see that sir Topham Hatt was able to save Barry, Murdoch and Rebecca from being scrapped.

[@jacksalvin364]

213 were saved from the scrapyard.

[@beeble2003]

Though seven of those were completely dismantled to supply spare parts to others.

[@JackCallSports]

Out of how many?

[@pegjames188]

When you're a little kid ,as far as the eye can see.

[@jfro5867]

I have a vague memory of my dad taking me there and standing looking at these steam trains through some fencing. I grew up in Wales and we used to go to Barry Island quite a lot in the mid 70’s. Terrific seeing these wonderful machines back to their former glory.

[@tobys_transport_videos]

So good to see steam locos saved from being turned into mere lumps of steel that no one cares about! I had no idea that "Camelot" had been a Barry engine! Wow! Thanks for a great video, I'm so looking forward to my first UK trip and a chance to see some of these locos "in the flesh!"

[@kineticrail]

DC4916 Productions yes its amazing the work all the volunteers put in to get these beasts back in steam. You will certainly have plenty of lines to choose from when you visit

[@lawrencelewis8105]

That't the truth! I go to the U.K. twice a year to drink real ale and breathe some coal smoke. I highly recommend the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, those guys do not screw around! Hell I recommend all of them!

[@beeble2003]

A decent fraction of all preserved mainline steam locos in the UK came from Woodham's. It's quite remarkable good fortune that they bought all those locos to scrap but then realised it was more profitable to work on other contracts and save the steam locos for a rainy day.

[@herbypumpkin1256]

I enjoyed that. Especially as one of the Engines hauled my Wedding Reception Train back in 1986 on the Watercress Line.

[@kineticrail]

Im glad you enjoyed it. Which loco was it that haul your reception train

[@ajaysood721]

पुराने दिनों की याद आ गई।

[@leonardfleet50]

So many fine trains lost but it's great to see these superb restorations. Congratulations to all those who made it possible; they had vision.

[@terryholloway1914]

Nothing more majestic than a steam engine pulling a train.

[@kineticrail]

I completely agree

[@britishrailwayreviews2177]

Heartwarming to see all these locos out of barry scrapyard, also known as hell

[@kineticrail]

Latecrest601 it is great just shows you the passion of the preservation community.

[@britishrailwayreviews2177]

Yeah, I live i canada where we don't have much of a preservation community at all in fact canada has less steam locos than california, so this video makes me a bit jealous

[@kineticrail]

That is a shame does seem like most of the world havent got the steam preservation bug like us brits.

[@Fcutdlady]

kinetic .rail let's not forget Dai Woodham the guy who owned the Barry island scrapyard . He didn't have to help the steam preservation movement, as he said in an interview it wasn't his intention to do so but he did.

[@thegregolahorologyclub6799]

Welcome to the Canadian Club. We do have that little mining steam engine at the Moose Jaw train museum in service. (Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan)

[@likklej8]

Praise and big respect to the engineers who restored these beautiful locomotives. It shows that excellent engineering skills still live in the U.K. Bring back proper manufacturing. We built electric and diesel locos too,and now they import foreign manufactured railway stuff. Get your arses out of the office and go engineering.

[@philnewstead5388]

Unfortunately the skills and the infrastructure to rebuild our engineering base doesn't exist in sufficient quantities. Engineering has been a dirty word in education for nearly forty years now. When I was leaving school in 1979 when I said the the careers master that I wanted to go into the motor trade her reaction was and I quote 'surely you want to be something better than a dirty smelly mechanic, if that's your ambition I can't do anything for you'. After serving my City And Guilds apprenticeship I went on to be a senior manager in the motor industry before taking early retirement at 55.

[@thra5herxb12s]

Whenever I see old documentary footage of old Leviathans such as these, I always search for the engines numbers and always so happy to find out that so many have actually survived into preservation.

[@kineticrail]

thra5herxb12s is a nice feeling that a large number of locos at least in the uk survived

[@theextremeanimator4721]

There's literally a US 19th century steamer called Leviathan that was scrapped, although a replica was finished in 1970

[@benji.B-side]

Amazing to see such beautiful trains transformed back to former glory!

[@briantitchener4829]

I vividly remember standing on Basingstoke station as a young lad in the mid 1960's, admiring 34007 "Wadebridge". Great to see her running again as a preserved loco.

[@kineticrail]

Its great to hear the video rekindles memories.

[@anthonychackett8188]

This is great to see. I remember the yard when we went on a day trip from Weston-Super-Mare. Its been a lasting memory from my childhood. The sight was amazing. All these years I had assumed they'd all been scrapped.

[@kineticrail]

Luckily over 200 locos survived and many have been restored and returned to steam

[@anthonychackett8188]

A wonderful achievement

[@richardsmith3881]

How wonderful that they have been saved for us all to enjoy now and in the future.

[@BAS19.6]

Truly awesome that 217 locomotives were saved from scrap.

[@Johnbro8]

Wonderful to see these living trains on the rails again, well done all those engineers, volunteers and enthusiasts who keep them running 🚂

[@MrSimpleone]

I remember walking round Barry Scrapyard in the early to mid 80’s having driven a coach down to there most Saturdays with Midland Red and I’m so glad that not all went for scrap!

[@kineticrail]

it is great the dedication of the groups that brought and restored these locos

[@pete6645]

Great to see virtually all those rusty steam locomotives stored at Barry have been rescued and are now up and running.

[@beeble2003]

A good number, but not "virtually all". Woodham's bought 297 steam locomotives from British Rail and 84 of those were scrapped. Seven were completely dismantled to provide parts for other locomotives being preserved. Twenty are still in basically scrap-yard condition and another 32 are still in the process of being restored. That means that just over half (154 out of 297) are currently in restored condition, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're working steam locomotives: some have only been cosmetically restored for static display and others were in runnable condition but now need expensive repairs such as boiler overhauls. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_locomotives_saved_from_Woodham_Brothers_scrapyard

[@bartholomewsorrentino9013]

Thank you for sharing.

[@Kneichion]

I visited in the late '70s with the school Railway club. Lovely to see some wonderfully restored. I am part of a Restoration Society we have a working Steam Train. I guess the love of trains never leaves you.

[@kineticrail]

Its great the video brings back memories. Which restoration society are you part of, which loco do you work on? Very true it does seem to be an interest that stick with you

[@MARKETMAN6789]

Thank you to all the wonderful people who have given their time and work to restore the engines and thank you for the video

[@kineticrail]

MARKETMAN6789 thanks. We do owe the volunteers a great deal. There hard work means we get to enjoy these fabulous locos running

[@davidlamont2734]

Brilliant video. Thank God for the preservation societies. They do a magnificent job keeping out railway history going.

[@kineticrail]

David Lamont thanks. yes they certainly do a wonderful job

[@derekstocker6661]

Fabulous work all round Folks. Saving our rail heritage and preserving for the future generations to enjoy.

[@annepegum3351]

Top video !! Watching it made me wonder how many thousands of man hours went into restoring all those wonderful locos ??

[@gabrielerosa665]

Stephen Pegum yes....i'm just thinking about it! There's no another kind of beauty like steam power locomotives running away!

[@stephenporter7113]

It's good to see these locomotives back in use ,I cant believe that 46 people didn't like this video ,just have been diesel enthusiasts

[@racketman2u]

wow! I get great joy from seeing any past technology lovingly restored, be they cars, trains, whatever, but the number of engines shown here is truly impressive.

[@kineticrail]

racketman2u it is amazing the dedication of the volunteers who restores these locos. The locos shown are a small example. Over 200 were saved from this scrapyard alone plus others saved from other locations

[@martynbuzzing3327]

That's truly amazing to see so many locomotives alive and well. Well done to all the amazing enthusiasts making it possible.

[@dennisb9157]

Just incredible how those locomotives were brought back to life. Love the video!

[@ericslade4374]

10 out of 10 to all involved in bringing these back to life

[@Bruce-1956]

I remember seeing these loco's in Barry sometime round 1975/76 while looking after a number of BP Tankers (Bird class) which had been laid-up there. Barry was one big junkyard !!!

[@terra2805]

Absolutely awesome!!! So pleasing to see these works of art back doing what they were built to do instead of slowly rotting away forgotten in some scrap yard at the back end of nowhere. 😁

[@kineticrail]

It is awesome tk think of the dedication to restoring these locos put in by mostly volunteers is incredible

[@inkslinger6156]

Nice old locomotives. Great video

[@kenharris5390]

Thanks Dai.

[@AlexJacksonTempleSounds]

I used to play amongst the locos in the scrapyard as a boy. A magical place!

[@DanthebobGaming]

I know this is a 5 year old video but a funny story. The 76084 engine shown in this video was owned by a family my mum was friends with growing up. It belonged to her friend's dad after he rescued it from the scrapyard and sat in their garden. She was never allowed to play on it and when he died it his daughter (mums friend) sold it to the restoration company who then put it on the poppy line

[@justinwatson4792]

Wonderful ,truly wonderful. So many memories of my childhood with my Nan taking me on trips.

[@markdavy7733]

That 847 is a beautiful piece of machinery!

[@greatbritannialine]

This has restored my faith in humanity, very heartwarming and wonderful to watch

[@ironhorsehero1988]

It must be unbelievably rewarding for anyone who has given time and energy to restoring any of these old steamers to be around long enough to witness the train they worked on back on track and looking as good as the day it left the makers yard.

[@wardvanderberg1403]

Beautiful restorations. Wonderfully done!

[@JohnSmith-pd1fz]

Good stuff. Thanks for posting!

[@kineticrail]

John Smith thanks i'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@RailAdventUK]

Excellent video! Nice to see how far some have come :)

[@kineticrail]

Yes very true. Still a fair few that are still waiting there turn

[@mausisbestwaifu8376]

RailAdvent u r correct dude

[@railwayman6901]

I wonder how many man hours went into the restoration of all of these locos.

[@IroncladInSteam4007]

Thousands

[@bagyanagar_wasi]

This Video is proof that not everything will get lost due to some people thinking of only efficiency and return on investment. My best wishes to all the steam societies in the world trying to revive these beautiful moving pieces of art and engineering. It is a rightful tribute to the ingenuity and the sweat and toil of all the men/women that worked in building and operating them.

[@andyrbush]

Every engineering system goes through evolution from messy and inefficient but effective, to clean efficient and effective. Respecting and preserving some of the past helps improve things in the future by making sure not to forget the lessons of the past.

[@sirborisdumpling6161]

What a fabulous video, I can remember clambering over the locomotives in Barry when I was a youngster. I always enjoyed seeing them but terribly sad to see such majestic icons rusting away. Seeing that many were preserved and brought back to life is just heart warming. Thanks.

[@kineticrail]

Thanks im glad you enjoyed the video.

[@roysimmons3549]

Brilliant. The hard work and dedication which goes into these steam loco restorations. Steam locos are iconic and nothing since matches the interest. Beautiful machines. Hats off to Dai Woodward for realising the heritage potential.

[@anthonywilliamson7323]

Beautiful restorations

[@henriquer7814]

Bygone trains running again ... Excellent work of cultural past protection...!!!

[@regwood8476]

‘Locomotives’!

[@pneian1]

Henrique R o

[@jiggermast]

Well done! I've waited for years for someone to do this! 'wonder how many million Man & Woman hours went into those in total...but well worth it!

[@tonyday7233]

Very nice to see them given new life, thaks.

[@clivekitchin3328]

just brilliant to see what so many people have done to preserve this essential part of our heritage / well done all those involved.

[@keepsteamingon]

Great video, a very interesting watch!

[@kineticrail]

Liam Griffiths many thanks

[@StuPony111]

Fantastic to see the progress, bringing these wonderful old ladies to life again

[@nickthomas8400]

spent time crawling allover the engines in barry as a kid - incredible to see the restros -

[@InterCityBR]

very good video, just shows how good the railway preservations across the country are!

[@kineticrail]

InterCityBR oh yes the hard work and dedication. still a fair few waiting there turn.

[@jappedut9009]

So nice to see steam engines being brought back to life and run again 🌷❤🌹

[@kineticrail]

It is so nice to see all the hours of work paying off

[@petersmith5199]

Brilliant video, thank for sharing.

[@kenamaro]

Very nice to see these historic engines have a new life !!

[@grahambrown5013]

My brother and I visited Dai Woodham's yard in the late 60's, there must've been 300 locos rusting away there. So good to see that so many have been returned to their former glory.

[@kite7214]

Lovely memories of visiting Barry when it was full of locos and later on living in Four Marks and working on the Mid Hants. Now I feel old. Thinking about it, I AM old. ....er. :-). Keith

[@dylanole8496]

It's great how some of these locos were just heaps of metal and now they are the most beautiful steam engines I have ever seen!

[@kineticrail]

just goes to show the dedication of the volunteers

[@jerrymccrae7202]

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!

[@victorgrasscourt3382]

Amazing restorations. Well done!

[@Knappist]

Love it, a testament to all the devotion and hard work of the people who made it possible, I take my hat off to all of you 👍

[@marvwatkins7029]

Thanks Barry for keeping them around just long enough.

[@vishwajitpawar4076]

Hearttouching vedio. Whenever I see steam engine, I remember my father and grandfather withhoom I had travelled through these steam engine trains (1972-80)between Pune to Kolhapure (my native place ). It is very similar between machines and men. As we grew up become old and die, machines also turns into scrap. Thanks.

[@DavidSmith-ze2wi]

All credit to everyone involved in saving and restoring these magnificent locomotives.

[@ricks247]

So glad to see this. i saw the scrap trains years ago when i was a kid . they were near to a car park opposite the fair at barry........which probably disappeared over the years too

[@kineticrail]

Glad the video has recalled some old memories..

[@djburland]

I went to Barry in 1975. It was such a sad sight

[@davestover1584]

Wow just wow lovey work

[@SSGSS4Vegitto]

2:22 it sounds like someone’s out of breath

[@PeterTrainIntu]

😂😂😂😂

[@GaryNumeroUno]

Sounds like me when I am performing the beep fitness test!

[@jamesrivis620]

Total recall here across the pond. Congrats to those who have brought these engines back to life !!!

[@plunkervillerr1529]

Love these restorations , the history lives on

[@michaelbentley4182]

Excellent

[@smd1uk]

Fantastic to see these engines brought back to life.

[@cjh30003]

Great video!

[@kineticrail]

Thanks glad you enjoyed

[@ronmccormick5849]

Magnificent Beasts and a remarkable achievement by a small band of enthusiasts all those years ago. we are all indebted to them. Well done

[@RenaissancePeopleNYC]

wowee! this is GREAT!

[@qsmdman]

i went there many years ago and westcontry Swanage was there, so good to see it alive again

[@JOSESANTOS2612]

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[@assiebruins2545]

Great work