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Help needed please :- Barry Scrapyard locos

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  1. neildimmer

    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    Morning All

    I have added some photos of Barry Scrapyard taken in 1966 & 1978
    there are some locos that need identifying if anyone can help please
    such as what spam can was next to Braunton in 1978
    http://tinyurl.com/njcufxy

    locos to id
    http://tinyurl.com/qgch8z3


    34092 City of Wells & 92207 even looked clean in 1966
    http://tinyurl.com/pkq34tp

    some 1971 photos of the 2 Kings in 1971
    http://tinyurl.com/pb66gqa

    1978 photos locos looking pretty rough now including Tangmere & Port line
    http://tinyurl.com/pw79cc3

    Neil
     
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    Neil - I hoped the Barry List 5th edition might help but it is in numerical rather than physical order. What i can say is that the folowing 2-8-0s are listed.

    Churchward 2800 class numbers 2807, 2859, 2861, 2873, and 2874

    Collett 2884 class numbers 2885, 3802, 3803, 3814, 3845, 3850, 3855 and 3862,

    I am more of a Southern suporter than GWR but I am sure someone can list the difference between Churchward and Collett versions to at least halve the probabilities.
     
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    I think the 2-8-0 might be 3802, as it was sent to the Plym Valley with a high sided tender which this one is next to in the photo
     
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    The tender that accompanied 3802 after it left Barry was purchased from Swindon works if I remember correctly.
     
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    Certainly a 2884, and clearly being very actively worked on. How reliable is the photo date? 3822 left in 1976 so presumably not that one. The next to leave was 2885 in 1981, and no more until the end of 1983. A search for 2885 images on google reveals this one http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEGATIVE-35mm-GWR-2885-IN-BARRY-SCRAP-YARD-SOLD-WITH-FULL-COPYRIGHT-/390634936013?nma=true&si=hWOn8ku8%2FCnl%2F49fHN1lufpDFKc%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 which is almost identical, so assuming that identification of that photo is correct then its 2885...
     
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    thanks for all the replies to the Barry locos I now have all the id's, and yes the dates are accurate
    Neil
     
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