Scrapped Locos

[snakeeyes]

hen a loco is cut up, is anything sold off and reused, like wheels or engine for another use?

 

[pdeaves]

hen a loco is cut up, is anything sold off and reused, like wheels or engine for another use?

Sometimes, if it's worth it/there's a buyer.

 

[trainmania100]

Name plates are often sold off

 

[gimmea50anyday]

CEM overhauls under british rail relied on transplanting components such as bogies, engines, gensets, cabs etc with low hours removed from withdrawn examples to keep others in traffic. The various lines of withdrawn and unservicable locos in willesden, Toton, Carnforth, Crewe, Barrow Hill, Derby etc testament to the fact this practice still continues to this day. It is no different to you turning up at a car breakers yard looking for parts to salvage for your own vehicle. Such parts are far cheaper than going to the vehicle dealer or a motor factors and could also yield parts no longer available.

 

[snakeeyes]

thanks for the replies, what happen to the class 56 engine's

 

[plarailfan]

CF Booth at Rotherham have cut up some class 56 locomotives.
I expect the re-usable parts will have been sold off at some stage to keep the mainline certified and "preserved" fleet serviceable for many years to come.
All the remaining scrap items will be sent off, to steelworks, to be melted and then used to manufacture anything from washing machines to razor blades, etc.
A lot of scrap metal these days travels by ship (40.000 tonnes at a time) and ends up in China, for their manufacturing production.

 

[70014IronDuke]

The engine's what?

 

[Phil.]

Ah, that Grocer's apostrophe again. Will people never get the hang of what is possessive and what isn't and how an apostrophe can replace a letter?

Peter's apples were red and shiny. Paul's apples weren't.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Ah, that Grocer's apostrophe again. Will people never get the hang of what is possessive and what isn't and how an apostrophe can replace a letter?

Peter's apples were red and shiny. Paul's apples weren't.

Careful... a certain Mr. S will be appalled at your suggestion that his apples are sub-standard!

 

[najaB]

Careful... a certain Mr. S will be appalled at your suggestion that his apples are sub-standard!

Nothing but the finest apples are allowed across the border from Cheshire West and Chester.

Back to topic, does anyone know of examples of locomotive engines finding new homes?

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Nothing but the finest apples are allowed across the border from Cheshire West and Chester.

Back to topic, does anyone know of examples of locomotive engines finding new homes?

Weren't the original engines from class 30s (became 31s) re-used in boats? One of the preserved Deltics was given an engine that was previously used in a Submarine (the Napier Deltic engine was initially designed for marine use anyway).

 

[themiller]

Weren't the original engines from class 30s (became 31s) re-used in boats? One of the preserved Deltics was given an engine that was previously used in a Submarine (the Napier Deltic engine was initially designed for marine use anyway).

I don't believe that any submarine had a Deltic engine. The Ton class minesweepers on the other hand had two.

 

[317666]

Back to topic, does anyone know of examples of locomotive engines finding new homes?

The last surviving engine from a Class 23 'Baby Deltic' (none of the class were preserved) has found its way into a Class 37, which is being converted into a replica Class 23 by the Baby Deltic Project.

 

[najaB]

Thanks, good to know they don't always head to the smelter. Any non-railway examples? I could see them going to marine or power generation applications.

 

[jbqfc]

i can remeber seeing a photo i think it was in rail enthusiast of a class 03 cab in use on a boat

 

[pdeaves]

In a similar vein, I have seen a photo of a mark 1 carriage body used on a canal barge.

Of course, hundreds of carriage and wagon bodies have been used over the years as houses, sheds, etc.

 

[randyrippley]

thanks for the replies, what happen to the class 56 engine's

there are at least two English companies whose main business is rebuilding / upgrading English Electric / Ruston diesels into "better than new" condition for use as generators or marine plant. Many go for third world export, others used as standby gennys in hospitals etc.

Details of one are at http://www.european-diesels.co.uk/engines/english-electric/

 

[D6975]

A few years ago Wigan Springs Branch became a parts recovery depot. Lots of withdrawn locos went there for parts recovery, the remnants being scrapped. I've got a few phots of bodyshells there after they had been stripped.