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Viewing Album:  Scrapyard Blues
 
By:Gary Thornton
Dates:1/31/1987 - 5/7/1989
Album Info:A large cull of British Rail locomotives in the late 1980's saw many scrapyards struggling to cope with the numbers. This collection of photos were taken at the yard of Vic Berry in Leicester.
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40163
Title:  40163
Description:  Cabs often outlived the rest of the locomotive due to possible asbestos contamination
Photo Date:  1/31/1987  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 4:31:15 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 40163(Class 40)
Views:  501   Comments: 1
Last Rites for a Class 40
Title:  Last Rites for a Class 40
Description:  An unidentified class 40 cab sits on top of a wrecked passenger car
Photo Date:  1/31/1987  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 4:31:42 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  473   Comments: 0
Space problem? No Problem!
Title:  Space problem? No Problem!
Description:  26 locomotives in one shot - a rather different way to store scrap locomotives! One, 25095, top row third from the right, displays its number on its cab front
Photo Date:  1/31/1987  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 4:31:58 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 25095(Class 25)
Views:  2110   Comments: 3
50006 'Neptune'
Title:  50006 'Neptune'
Description:  The two cabs of 50006, first of the class to be cut, sandwich a class 31 cab
Photo Date:  1/31/1987  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 4:32:13 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 50006(Class 50)
Views:  708   Comments: 0
All Jumbled Up
Title:  All Jumbled Up
Description:  Make sense of the mess - various loco types all stacked together waiting the final chop
Photo Date:  1/30/1988  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 4:59:06 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  291   Comments: 0
Squashed!
Title:  Squashed!
Description:  A diesel railcar looks to have suffered after having a loco stacked on top of it
Photo Date:  10/23/1988  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 4:32:25 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 45074(Class 45)
Views:  509   Comments: 0
Half the loco it used to be
Title:  Half the loco it used to be
Description:  After chopping in half each half is reduced to a pile of scrap metal in days
Photo Date:  10/23/1988  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 4:33:28 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 45074(Class 45)
Views:  413   Comments: 0
31227
Title:  31227
Description:  Does any locomotive deserve such an undignified end?
Photo Date:  10/30/1988  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 4:59:50 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 31227(Class 31)
Views:  457   Comments: 0
Triple Stack!
Title:  Triple Stack!
Description:  25095, 27208 and 27045 form part of the diminishing stack of scrap locomotives
Photo Date:  1/15/1989  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 4:32:40 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 25095(Class 25)
Views:  553   Comments: 0
One needed on top
Title:  One needed on top
Description:  The loco on the extreme left should be on top to make the perfect pyramid!
Photo Date:  1/15/1989  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 4:33:05 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 25095(Class 25)
Views:  558   Comments: 0
Room on top?
Title:  Room on top?
Description:  A stack of locomotives await the cutters torch
Photo Date:  1/15/1989  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 4:33:16 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 25095(Class 25)
Views:  527   Comments: 0
33049 and other fallen comrades
Title:  33049 and other fallen comrades
Description:  The two cabs of 33049 are all that remain that can be recognised of this particular loco
Photo Date:  3/5/1989  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 4:59:21 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 33049(Class 33)
Views:  383   Comments: 0
Going, Going...
Title:  Going, Going...
Description:  The faint number D7544 suggests the cab belongs to 25194 but as that loco was scrapped elsewhere it is more likely a different loco that has had a cab transplant from 25194
Photo Date:  3/5/1989  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 5:00:14 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 25194(Class 25)
Views:  450   Comments: 0
Nothing but scrap metal
Title:  Nothing but scrap metal
Description:  A class 25 loco bogie (truck) meets its fate
Photo Date:  3/5/1989  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 4:59:35 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  354   Comments: 0
Another load of scrap
Title:  Another load of scrap
Description:  A class 25 loco bogie (truck) meets its fate. Loco cabs lurk in the background awaiting the torch too.
Photo Date:  3/5/1989  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 5:14:27 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  329   Comments: 0
Seeing Double
Title:  Seeing Double
Description:  The practice of cutting locos in half can lead to some strange double-takes! Here are the two halves of 25911
Photo Date:  3/5/1989  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 5:15:50 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 25911(Class 25)
Views:  490   Comments: 0
THE END 50047
Title:  THE END 50047
Description:  The former 50047 'Swiftsure' slowly decomposes alongside 47103
Photo Date:  5/7/1989  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 5:14:39 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 50047(Class 50)
Views:  412   Comments: 0
R.I.P.
Title:  R.I.P.
Description:  Doubtless the favourite of many railfans, this unidentified class 50 cab is suitably marked
Photo Date:  5/7/1989  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 5:14:49 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  245   Comments: 0
How the mighty have fallen
Title:  How the mighty have fallen
Description:  Cabs from one or two unidentified class 50's sit side by side
Photo Date:  5/7/1989  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 5:15:01 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  236   Comments: 0
RIP 47420
Title:  RIP 47420
Description:  The two freshly-cut halves of 47420 sit side by side
Photo Date:  5/7/1989  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 5:15:16 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 47420(Class 47)
Views:  314   Comments: 0
BR1 47103
Title:  BR1 47103
Description:  47103 surrounded by the hardware that will ultimately help destroy it
Photo Date:  5/7/1989  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 5:15:28 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 47103(Class 47)
Views:  346   Comments: 0
Bleeding to Death
Title:  Bleeding to Death
Description:  A trail of Traction Motor Suspension Unit lubricant trails away from the remains of 50014
Photo Date:  5/7/1989  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 5:15:39 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 50014(Class 50)
Views:  431   Comments: 0
New Arrival
Title:  New Arrival
Description:  47415 had only recently arrived for disposal so had yet to suffer much damage beyond broken glass
Photo Date:  3/18/1990  Upload Date: 7/12/2006 5:16:04 PM
Location:  Leicester, UK
Author:  Gary Thornton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BR1 47415(Class 47)
Views:  439   Comments: 0

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