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Steamguy73 · **Joined:** Wed Dec 24, 2014 3:15 pm **Posts:** 635

I remember there was an engine at Barry's Scrap yard that was slated to become an exhibit for what steam locomotives would look like in a scrap yard. It's the same class as the British engine, Evening Star

70000 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2016 2:16 pm

Steamguy73 wrote:

I remember there was an engine at Barry's Scrap yard that was slated to become an exhibit for what steam locomotives would look like in a scrap yard. It's the same class as the British engine, Evening Star

That's #92245 according to this listing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p ... ocomotives

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2016 5:34 pm

Steamguy73 wrote:

I remember there was an engine at the Woodham Bros. breakers' yard in Barry, South Glamorgan, Wales that was slated to become an exhibit for what steam locomotives would look like in a scrap yard. It's the same class as the British engine, Evening Star

Fixed that for you.

There were a total of ten "last ones out" called the "Barry Ten," of which, yes, 92245 is the last one being specifically retained in ex-breakers yard condition as a "memorial" to the yard from which so many locos and spares were saved. And that, dear readers, is by far the most appropriate case for "preserving" a loco in "scrapyard" condition--if not the only truly appropriate case.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Ten

recent photo of 92245:
http://www.semaphoresandsteam.com/p652479946/e7f89389