Barry scrap yard 1973

Have you got any photos from around then 34081?

 

Well I'm 99% certain that light pacific is 34067 Tangmere.

 

Definitely looks like it. Another one that John Bunch was involved with...

 

February 1975.
34081-19750200 by KING COBRA 92, on Flickr

 

Oh blimey, thanks for that. To see how it looked in Sunshine livery a few decades later you just wouldn’t believe it was the same machine.
Is that a Castle in front?

 

Think it's a Hall. The Prairie to the right of 34081 is 4110.

 

Ah ok.
Which part of the yard is 34081 parked in there? Was there a specific area that was used to store sold locos that were about to be taken away?

 

She got moved around a bit and to be honest, I don't recall which bit of the yard she was in at that time. I do recall she was moved again before we collected her in late '76,

 

It's just possible that it is 35011 General Steam Navigation, still working on it at the moment....

 

Yes please!

 

35027 Port Line might also be a contender.
It was tenderless and had the same bit of missing solebar.
Not easy this.

 

My possible contender is 34010 Sidmouth. There is this image from 1973 of 34010 behind another Bulleid and with a GWR tender behind?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64518...ypm-qUURKg-HhZmgA-e5y3Mw-SRtibW-qYUkGY-FmKdbX

I also checked my note books and can say that 35010 & 34010 were "close" if not adjacent in 1975, 1978 & 1980

 

That’s pretty compelling Robin. I think you’re right there.

 

The Merchant Navy has a longer firebox than the WC/BB light pacific and looking at the target Bulleid, I think the latter with shorter firebox has a greater shout. This image illustrates this perfectly between 34101 and 35022

https://www.flickr.com/photos/97660...YvA-7B1LXx-7B1Kpp-7zVd7g-Qjhypg-7zYWGW-cuTiAL

 

Set back cylinders says GWR Castle class (with missing chimney?) - options for searching are 5080, 5043 (left in 1973), 5029. Worth a look at King 6023 & 6024

 

Definitely a Castle I would say. You can tell by the way the cylinders are slightly set into the solebar.

 

Yes I think you're correct to go for Robins suggestion; having looked again the GW tender behind 35011 seems to be a larger variant with higher sides than that behind Sidmouth, the one in your shot looks more in keeping with the smaller lower sided type.

 

Nunney Castle seems to be a possible contender as it was missing it’s chimney at that time?

 

I went to Barry in August 73 but don't remember any numbers apart from D601 - the only time I can remember ever seeing one of the D6XX Warships. It was in a pretty dilapidated state and I seem to remember there was talk about that time of trying to save it but nothing came of it. Interest in diesels then was almost zero. I wish I had had the foresight to remove one of the brass bogie plates which were like miniature NBL diamond worksplates but you always regret the things you never did.

 

34068 was broken up at Eastleigh 31/3/64

 

If anyone has the time (and inclination) to search them all, there must be hundreds of photos from Barry (at different dates) here:-

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=train+photos+barry+scrapyard&t=h_&ia=images&iax=images

https://www.philt.org.uk/Misc/Barry/i-WdD7NRK

http://www.6g.nwrail.org.uk/michaelhenneypage3.html

https://www.flickriver.com/groups/woodhams_barry/pool/interesting/

 

Zooming in on the yellow paint just past where the front r/h buffer should be, I see 34058. I was confused on this one because there are images taken after 1973 showing 34058 to have front buffers although it is quite possible these were replaced to aid in shunting or as part of some cosmetic work carried out on a prospective purchase.
There is also the faint semblance of this number on the smokebox door.