Woodham Brothers
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Woodham Brothers Ltd is a trading business, based mainly around activities and premises located within Barry Docks, in Barry, South Wales. It is noted globally for its 1960s activity as a scrapyard, w
Woodham Brothers scrapyard in 1982
GWR 6000 Class 6023 King Edward II at Woodham Brothers in 1982
The first locomotive to leave Woodhams for preservation, the Midland-built 4F, No.43924, piloting BR Riddles 'Standard' 4MT 4-6-0 locomotive No.75078, photographed 17 years later in 1983 approaching Ebor Lane road bridge, Haworth on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.
SR Merchant Navy class Shaw Savill (left) with SR Battle of Britain class 249 Squadron (right) at Woodham's Scrapyard in 1984.
GWR 4300 Class
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The GWR 4300 Class was a class of 2-6-0 steam locomotives, designed by George Jackson Churchward for the Great Western Railway for mixed traffic duties. A total of 342 were built between 1911 and 1932
Woodham Brothers
…It was a completely different job from what we were used to." On 25 March 1959, the first batch of engines was despatched from Swindon to Barry: GWR 2-6-0's numbers 5312/60/92/97 and a single 2-6-2T Prairie tank, 3170 a week later. However, on delivery of both scrap rail and rolling stock, Woodham's found that commercially it…
6304 at Over Junction, Gloucester, in 1962
No. 5327 at Swindon 11 June 1950 (modified to the heavier version as No. 8327 1928–1944).
5322 preserved in WWI Railway Operating Division khaki livery
Hugh llewelyn 5322