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[[File:Woodham Brothers Barry Scrapyard (8427144929).jpg | thumb|400px|right|Locomotives at Barry Scrapyard (Wikimedia Commons)]]
'''Barry Scrapyard ''' is the colloquial name for '''Woodham Brothers Ltd''', formerly Woodham & Sons, of Thomson Street, Barry, Wales. The scrapyard was responsible for saving more than 200 steam locomotives, including 13 now 14 currently based at the SVR.
==History==
The business was founded in 1892 by Albert Woodham. After his retirement in 1947, the business was run by his youngest son Dai Woodham. It employed around 200 people and encompassed Transport, Marine and Metals as well as the scrap metals business for which it is best known.
By the early 1980s around 150 locomotives had been ‘saved’ from Barry, with groups such as the ‘Barry Steam Locomotive Action Group’ and ‘Barry Rescue’ being formed to help preserve those remaining. The last ten locomotives passed into the ownership of South Glamorgan County Council (and latterly the Vale of Glamorgan District Council) with the intention of establishing a Welsh Railway Museum. However further sales from the ‘Barry 10’ followed and now in 2016, only 2 ex-Barry locomotives remain at the site which is now the home of the Barry Tourist Railway.
==SVR current ex-Barry locomotives==Of {{As of|2020}}, of the 23 24 locomotives currently resident at the SVR that were owned by BR or the ‘Big 4’ companies, 13 14 were rescued from Barry. 6 others came direct from BR (1450, 43106, 45110, 46443, 47383 and 48773), 3 from the NCB (813, 1501 and 7714) and one from London Transport (5764).
The current SVR residents ex-Barry are as follows:
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|[[BR Riddles 4MT 80079 | 80079]]||Jan 1966||May 1971||SVR||13
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|[[ GWR 6960 Raveningham Hall | 6960]]||Jul 1964||Oct 1972||Steamtown||26
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|[[GWR 4930 Hagley Hall | 4930 Hagley Hall]]||Jun 1964||Jan 1973||SVR||29
Of these locomotives, only 4150 has yet to steam in preservation.
==SVR formerly resident ex-Barry locomotives==A number of [[Former Residents | former residents]] were also rescued from Barry, of which . These comprise:{| class="wikitable"!Locomotive!!Arrived Barry!!Left Barry!!Left for!!Comment|- |[[LMS Ivatt Class 2 46521 | 46521]], ||Mar 1967||Mar 1971||SVR||Fully restored at the SVR|-|[[GWR 4141 | 4141]], and || Nov 1963||Jan 1973||SVR||Left before restoration completed|-|[[BR Standard 2MT 78019 | 78019]] began their preserved life on the || Jun 1967||Mar 1973||SVR || Left before moving elsewhere. restoration completed|-| [[GWR Pannier 3612|3612]] was purchased from Barry in || Mar 1965||Dec 1978 ||SVR|| Used as a source of spare parts for the other SVR's other panniers, but the frame was later cut up after wheels, boiler and other components were re. |-used. |[[SR 34053 Sir Keith Park|34053]] was restored elsewhere but || Mar 1966||Jun 1984||Hull Dairycoates|| Restoration completed at Swanage, first ran on the SVR. |-|[[6634]] also spent a period || Aug 1964||Jun 1981||TBC|| Restoration still incomplete. |-|[[LMS Stanier Jubilee 45690 Leander|45690 Leander]]||Jul 1964||May1972||Derby||Fully restored before arrival on the SVR|-|[[LMS Stanier Jubilee 45699 Galatea|45699 Galatea]]||May 1965||Apr 1980||Carnforth||Unrestored while at the SVR but has yet to steam |-|46512||Jun 1967||May 1973||Strathspey||Spent some years unrestored on the SVR while in preservation.transit|} ==Other SVR involvement with Barry==Other rolling stock rescued from Barry scrapyard comprises:*[[GWR 3930 Full Third]]*[[GWR 65620 'Vanfit' Covered Goods Van]]*[[GWR/BR 92080 Fruit D Van]]*[[GWR 134290 Fruit A Van]]
The SVR also acquired a quantity of track fixtures and fittings from Barry during visits in 1981, including chair keys, pandrol clips, fishplates and rail anchors.<ref>SVR News 61</ref>
