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Wombwell Diesels on 2 October 1982. RT`s no longer dominate but a fair quantity of SM family buses can be seen here including an SMA and an SM that had spent time with another owner after leaving London Country. Is that a Southampton Corporation decker on the left?
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Two industrials at rest, Andrew Barclay (AB 1823/1924) 0-4-0ST "Chemicals" and Ruston & Hornsby (RH 417892/1959) 4WDM at Crossley Evans scrapyard, Shipley, West Yorkshire - 21/09/1974.
© 2014 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 35mm colour transparency; photographed by the late David R Vickers.
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The scrapyard of Cohens of Kettering in the mid-1980s with three class '48DS' Ruston & Hornsby 4-wheel diesel-mechanical locomotives awaiting the torch. From left to right: (W/No.224346 built in 1945) in yellow, which was acquired from British Leyland at Coventry circa February 1982. In green "Grazebrook" (W/No.279597 built in 1949), which arrived from Midland Rollmakers at Crewe in September 1983, and in black an unidentified '48DS' Class Ruston.
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A wrecking yard (Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard (Irish and British English) or junkyard (American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as scrap metal parts, are sold to metal-recycling companies.
Other terms include wreck yard, wrecker's yard, salvage yard, breakers yard, dismantler and scrapheap. In the United Kingdom, car salvage yards are known as car breakers, while motorcycle salvage yards are known as bike breakers. In Australia, they are often referred to as 'Wreckers'.
The most common type of wreck yards are automobile wreck yards, but junkyards for motorcycles, bicycles, small airplanes and boats exist too.
Many salvage yards operate on a local level—when an automobile is severely damaged, has malfunctioned beyond repair, or not worth the repair, the owner may sell it to a junkyard; in some cases—as when the car has become disabled in a place where derelict cars are not allowed to be left—the car owner will pay the wrecker to haul the car away.
Salvage yards also buy most of the wrecked, derelict and abandoned vehicles that are sold at auction from police impound storage lots,and often buy vehicles from insurance tow yards as well.
The salvage yard will usually tow the vehicle from the location of its purchase to the yard, but occasionally vehicles are driven in. At the salvage yard the automobiles are typically arranged in rows, often stacked on top of one another.
Some yards keep inventories in their offices, as to the usable parts in each car, as well as the car's location in the yard. Many yards have computerized inventory systems. About 75% of any given vehicle can be recycled and used for other goods.
In recent years it is becoming increasingly common to use satellite part finder services to contact multiple salvage yards from a single source.
In the 20th century these were call centres that charged a premium rate for calls and compiled a facsimile that was sent to various salvage yards so they could respond directly if the part was in stock. Many of these are now Web-based with requests for parts being e-mailed instantly.
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.
34070 is matched with other photos in the Barry group to confirm identity. It is on the end of a line so ideal for photography in 1968. The photographer must have climbed up a signal post ?
91132 in Sims scrapyard Beeston waiting its fate, can still make it out despite the best efforts to hide it away. Was surprised they hadn't thrown a tarpaulin over it.
A very sad sight of 370002 APT in Booths scrapyard in Rotherham, a sight that in my opinion should never have happened, a victim of British media power killing an amazing piece of British technology and as a result meaning us having to buy the technology back from Italy.
I travelled on the APT from London to Glasgow and it was the smoothest train i've been on with no feeling of reported sickness (but then i wasn't drinking copious amounts of free alcohol like the British press)
Photo taken at approx 08:05 on the 4th of July 1986
Routemasters were being withdrawn from service by the dozen and were being unceremoniously stripped of useful parts and dragged up the M1 to the Barnsley scrapyards. I had to visit one of the scrapyards to pay homage to the departing icons. These pictures still sadden me, although many Routemasters live on because of the sacrifice these vehicles made.
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.
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.
RF`s 685, 387 and 448 at Wombwell Diesels on 25 May 1979. These were in a line of about ten RF`s that had been here a couple of years and were still present - although stripped of panels - when I next visited in 1982.
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.
The dismembered remains of 42103 and 42082 at Buttigieg's scrapyard, Newport, in February 1966.
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A pannier tank gently rusts in Barry Scrapyard in March 1978. A 'Crab' can be seen behind. There seems to be an unrebuilt Bulleid Pacific in front. Presumably all have now been preserved.
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.
RM 1297 at Norths on 4 November 1982. I`m looking at this RM laid bare and thinking how lucky we were to have been able to experience - and to treasure - buses that were really well constructed. No matter how skeletal an RM can look, it still amazes me that they never rattled or shook when going along or ticking over when stationary. Nor leaked rain water into the interior from the ceiling or around the window frames. Unlike the Volvo Eclipse that I was driving earlier. More rattles than Mothercare and the floor awash with water ingress from numerous leaks plus the awful smell of damp, rotting seat moquette.
45293 LMS Stanier Black 5 with Southern Railways West Country/Battle of Britain class 34073 '249 Squadron' and 35009 'Shaw Savill' sometime in 1986 at Barry Island Scrapyard.
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.
The heat exchanger tanks are from Golf Oil refinery damaged by fire in 1975
A refinery owned by Gulf Oil Corporation in Philadelphia, located at Girard Point on the Schuylkill River in South Philadelphia, caught fire on Sunday, August 17, 1975. This incident grew into an 11-alarm fire, not brought under control until 24 hours later, and resulted in the death of eight firefighters of the Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD), injuries to 14 other firefighters, and the loss of four PFD vehicles.
At the height of this fire, the loss of the huge, sprawling refinery complex was regarded as a real possibility as a tremendous firestorm enveloped two storage tanks, travelled through portions of the on-site piping, and destroyed the refinery's administration building. - Wikipedia
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.......
The Millennium Dome in London would have been a neighbour had Thames Metal Co. of Greenwich survived. This is the view on 21st February 1971 with resident 4-wheel diesel-mechanical locos Frank Hibberd 'Planet' (Works Nos.3912 built in 1959 and 3477 built in 1950) surrounded by scrap at the end of the Angerstein Wharf branch, alongside the river Thames.
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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.