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Front -end view of two prewar ex Alexander buses in the grounds of a house at Balirlogie. I have a note that the reg of the lh bus is WG23xx. 13/11/82.
There was an abundance of coaching stock when i visited the scrapyard. A majority of the locomotive scrapping had been completed by 1990. The famous diesel stacks no longer existed but replaced now with coaching stock. I need to do some research as to why two relatively modern Pullman coaches were in the yard. There may have been the result of an accident. Scanned image, original photo taken 20/1/1990
The blunt end of 91132 amongst other scrap vehicles all waiting for the crusher at Sims metals Beeston
this was on my wall as a kid,its the last page/inside cover from a book that i brought at a school jumble sale,been trying to find another copy,but can`t rememeber the tilte its by alladin books and was printed in the early/mid 80s and about the car industry anybody recognise it ?
Captured Ethiopian Army Soviet-manufactured vehicles, including command and communications box bodies, and a crash-damaged Chevrolet while away the time at the Asmara scrapyard, Eritrea, on 3 December 2014.
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C.F. Booth's scrap business has disposed of many surplus main line and industrial railway locos and rolling stock, and even continues to do so today. An elevated viewpoint of their extensive Rotherham scrapyard site on 18th November 1988 found Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 diesel-hydraulic (W/No.478 built in 1963) moving a variety of ex-BR rolling stock into position for disposal.
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Ok, so it`s not quite in line with the `buses` title but it is at least LT relevant. Many R and CO/CP District Line carriages ended up at Booths for scrapping such as car 21101 on 2 October 1982.
So it`s not a bus but those of us who enjoy revisiting the buses that once made LT special will almost certainly approve of an Underground carriage of character. Admittedly, R Stock car 21101 would look a lot better if it were somewhere on the District Line as opposed to being on a pile of scrap metal in Booths yard on 2 October 1982.
One of the ex Alexander prewar buses 'stored' at Blairlogie .
Taken on a trial Fuji film... 13/11/82.
Fowler (Midland) 0-6-0 43924 caught on Kodachrome 25 slide film by John Wiltshire in all its rusty glory on a sunny day at Barry Docks in June 1968.
This engine is not the most magnificent of steam engines but it is famous for being the very first to be purchased and rescued from the scrapyard in September 1968 having spent exactly 3 years at Barry. The loco can be seen today as a regular performer on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway in Yorkshire.
Photo Taken : 24.08.1991.
Made redundant by the Manchester Metrolink tramway project these class 504 EMU's await their certain fate in the scrapyard of M.C. Metals Ltd. Springburn, Glasgow. The 504 class EMU's were unique in the UK in being side contact third rail units used soley on the 1200v DC Manchester Victoria to Bury line. They were built in 1959 by BR workshops at Wolverton but general overhauls were done for many years at Horwich works and when that closed overhauls were carried out at their birthplace, Wolverton. Other than a few early withdrawls as surplus stock the bulk of the class survived until their line was converted to a tramway in the latter part of 1991. Most ended up scrapped here at Springburn but one 2-car set survived into preservation on the East Lancs Railway. The two car seen here is a mixed set with 77175 ex set 504 454 leading and 65453 from sister unit 504 453 trailing.
Abandoned vehicle yard in Pripyat.
Named for the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360 before being evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Though Pripyat is located within the administrative district of Ivankiv Raion, the abandoned city now has a special status within the larger Kiev Oblast (province), being administered directly from Kiev. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Access to Pripyat, unlike cities of military importance, was not restricted before the disaster as nuclear power stations were seen by the Soviet Union as safer than other types of power plants. Nuclear power stations were presented as being an achievement of Soviet engineering, where nuclear power was harnessed for peaceful projects. The slogan "peaceful atom" (Russian: ?????? ????, mirnyj atom) was popular during those times. The original plan had been to build the plant only 25 km (16 mi) from Kiev, but the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, among other bodies, expressed concern about it being too close to the city. As a result, the power station and Pripyat were built at their current locations, about 100 km (62 mi) from Kiev. After the disaster the city of Pripyat was evacuated in two days.
A 35 man (plus guides) trip to the Ukraine exploring Chernobyl, the village, Duga 3, Pripyat and Kiev including Maidan (Independence Square) and observing the peaceful protests underway.
Some new faces, some old, made new friends and generally we were in our elements.
Rhetorical question but did we have a blast? You bet!
Amazing group, top guys. Till the next time!
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At Wombwell Diesels on 25 May 1979 these were among the recent arrivals by which time, inevitably, would involve former driver trainers given that there were more of these than RT`s in service by 1979. As can be seen, three of the four were in the former category and one in the latter. From left they are: RT 1850, 2150, 4770 and 3254. Of which 2150 and 3254 soon went for preservation.
An early attempt at stitching pictures into a panorama. Slight discolouration on the left were the smoke from the burner was drifting over the scrap heap.
I would guess that the majority of RT`s present at Wombwell Diesels when I visited on 25 May 1979 had been driven there from London as opposed to being towed. Some of the more recent arrivals - such as RT 2844 here - that hadn`t been deliberately damaged on site looked quite capable of going straight back into service. Quite bizarre to see cannibalised DMS`s and SMS`s being broken up in close proximity to completely intact RT`s. During my time on LT I`m not sure I ever saw a cannibalised RT that became an early candidate for withdrawal.......
Quite the find, a 1925 built British Thompson Houston 3MW steam turbine! She was placed in use at Hatfield Main Collieries Power House from 1925 through to her retirement and removal from the colliery in 1974! Not in the best of nick but a restoration project would see her through...
Although this loco had been purchased from Dai Woodham shortly before this photo was taken in April 1985, she had to wait another fourteen months before leaving the scrapyard.
The reason being that the Bulleid Light Pacific Braunton in front of 4277 had to be moved to an adjacent track on the West Pond sidings before the purchased loco could be extracted.
A scan from a Kodachrome slide.
At Norths on 4 November 1982, RM 1538 is being systematically dismantled on a parts reclaim basis - which was the requirement for the fifty RM`s that went there a few weeks previously. Those at the back of the queue lasted on site a lot longer than would have been the case if straightforward breaking had been undertaken. Removed parts did come back to LT - I recall seeing a big stash of these that included lower back ends with registration numbers visible.
A beautifully exposed 35mm Kodachrome 25ASA slide taken by John Wiltshire off the footbridge at Barry Docks good shed in May 1967.
The number of the LMS Jinty in the foreground is unknown but the 2nd loco is LMS Crab 42859 as identified on the slide notes. Behind that is a BR Standard 9F, a BR standard class 5, another 2 Jinty and then 2 Ivatts.
Plenty here for the railway modeller. Dont you just want to go in and polish them , light the fire and steam them to a safe place ?
Found back some of my car stuff: as a kid I visited a scrapyard in 1991, a few days before the yard would be closed and all the cars would be crushed, shred and scrapped. I asked if I could take some car badges and photos as souvenirs. I still remember most of the cars, from the late 70s and early 80s. I wish I had taken more pictures. (See album Bergklooster 1991.) The Renault badges are on another photo. Most of these are from the years 1972 - 1986.
Even with most of the outer skin removed, an RT still looks quite solid. And as we all know, they didn`t rattle. Wonder what a modern ADL 400 would look like if a comparable panel remove was done.......
This is RT 651 at Wombwell Diesels on 25 May 1979.
Forty one years ago tonight there were numerous LT garages with anything from one to several RM`s parked up, de-blinded and no longer required for service as from the schedule change of 4 September 1982.
Around two hundred RM`s were removed from weekday schedules and with less buses required for service there was still room for those that had been withdrawn to remain until moved to storage at EnsignBus over the coming days. It was several weeks before fifty left London for parts reclaim and subsequent breaking at Norths near Leeds and many were still intact there when I visited on 4 November 1982. RM`s 1541, 1169, 1203 and 1706 awaiting their turn for dismantling look just like I remember seeing many parked up withdrawn in garages. Fully intact and capable of being used but deemed to be surplus to requirements.
One of five colour slides taken in the 1970s. This Scammell is in a yard at Station Road Colliers Wood. Nothing of this now remains. I have called it the 'Truckers Holiday Camp' in other pictures on my site.
For the last upload on a scrapyard theme, I have picked this scene at Norths on 4 November 1982 of RM`s 1402, 1629 and 1445 awaiting scrapping.
Looking back at this from forty years ago I`m sure many of us are resentful of the circumstances that brought about the first mass RM withdrawals. If only a different way had been found to negate the challenge to the concept of heavily reduced fares that achieved exactly what was hoped for in terms of a massive increase in public transport use alongside a massive reduction in car use. I was driving on LT at that time and clearly recall how successful the Fares Fair idea was - albeit for just a few months.
Who would ever have guessed as the travelling public appeared to respond so favourably to lower bus fares and quicker journeys that it would soon result in a large scale reduction in the overall fleet strength which caused fully serviceable buses to be driven to scrapyards.
As the end of the RM class seemed to begin in 1982 with the intent to speed up the process so that by the end of the decade they would all be gone, a later turn of events took us all by surprise. The RML class were refurbished and re-engined less than ten years after the first RM withdrawals and then many RM`s were similarly treated. Even more bizarre was the buying back of RM`s from wherever they were available with vast sums of money spent on them to return them to front line service. And if I recall correctly, it was nearly twenty years after those first mass withdrawals that we had the famous quote `only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster`. Shame that wasn`t thought of sooner....
30 years later, these two poles confuse me. The height and arrangement is consistent with railroad practice, but all except one insulator were porcelain types commonly seen on power lines! Maybe the scrapyard used to have its own power plant?
Long gone of course - the city bought the scrapyard, cleaned up the area, and made it an extension of nearby Falls Park.
I visited Barry scrapyard many times, but took very few photos there. In the late 1960s and early 1970s my friends and I would often cycle to Barry from Cardiff to see what the latest arrivals at Woodham Bros yard were. I think this photo was taken on one of the very last (if not the last) time I visited the yard. We arrived to find Bulleid "Merchant Navy" 4-6-2 no 35005 being winched aboard a road trailer to facilitate its move from Barry into preservation.
35005 was built, as 21C5 in the SR number system for Bulleid pacifics, at Eastleigh in 1941. It was rebuilt, with the streamlining removed, in June 1959, and was withdrawn from Weymouth shed in October 1965. It was towed to Barry for scrapping, but became the 38th loco to leave that scrapyard for preservation in March 1973. It was restored to working order at the Great Central Railway in November 1990 - three months before I took my photo below.