Another one for the chop!

Spot on.

 

That's a very sensible suggestion, though I still think the whole idea is barking.


If they must section it then at least make sure it's made up of the very worst bits of the remaining 9Fs and anything good is taken away.

 

Whats up with Barry railway centre, the boiler of the 5 goes, why not sell the whole loco to riley? , the 4mt tank, thats something i agree with, they could never hope to restore it, its gone to somewhere that increases its chances of steaming, now this, the only way it would work for me is if it was cosmetically restored you could probally get away with fibreglass boiler cladding , with coupling rods but no conecting rods and portraided as if it had just arrived, about to be cut, dirty, rust streaked and with chalked messages on it but why partly cut it? it makes no sence? unless the aim is to try to use the idea of cutting for display to hope that someone waves hard cold cash at them to take the engine off them ? not saying thats the plan, but its not the first time a threat to an engine has resulted in someone coming forth waving their cheque book .

 

Maybe the boiler outers nearly rusted though ?, in which case cutting into it and chopping a few life expired tubes is no great loss
That inner firebox wants saving though, its the part of the boiler most likely to need patching up on the other 9fs... as time goes on.

 

Wasn't 92245 an ex S&D loco?

 

Yes, I believe so. I have an old VHS video on the S&D which shows 92245 at Broadstone Junction.

 

Surely the Barry story is best told through videos and photographs better than a single locomotive in a dilapidated form being destroyed further than it was than it was in Barry?

The Barry Story deserves to be told, for sure, and the best way of telling it is showing how many locomotives survived the scrap yard for preservation, not showing something which didn't happen (i.e. Barry cutting up said 9F).

Not sure what to add to the excellent points by the many learned gentlemen in this thread, but it seems to be a very oddball move in light of the reality of Barry Scrapyard. Far better would be to take a few beyond restoration, period wagons and put them alongside the 9F, with a depiction of gas cutting taking place. Didn't Barry cut up wagons before locomotives, after all?

I just wonder if they've thought this through enough.

 

As mentioned above, Woodhams cut a number of locos. However IMHO few people would be interested in a "recreation" of Woodhams in whatever form it took. There are enough pictures and films around to satisfy most people's curiosity

 

If one wants to see BR steam being scrapped, one wants to goto Lincolnshire and the fight to save the crab..
yet on the other side of the country there's some fighting to scrap one !

 

Have the wheels been found for the crab?

 

I believe so.

Mark

 

There was a 'What, Where, When' pic in steam railway some years ago of 92245 at Evercreech Jct.

 

92245 was one of the four 9Fs allocated to Bath for the summer season (June to September) 1962 and was active on the final day of through working, sat 8th September, when "Evening Star" famously hauled the last "Pines Express" over the S&D.

Peter James

 

See they have started to rip it apart (92245). But they won't commit how it is going to be displayed.

 

Dai Woodham at Barry did actually cut up a 9F around 1980, if I recall it was 92085. See some of the pictures in an early edition of "Steam Railway" magazine.

 

Yes, it was one of only two remaining single chimney 9F's. The other one being 92014.

 

Are you saying 92014 was at Barry or is it a typo error and should be 92134?

 

Afternoon everyone,

92134 is the only surviving single-chimney 9F. Woodhams also cut 92232 back in 1965...

 

My mistake!