A day at the scrap yard...

[Ghost]

Thats a bloody long way to go for a srap yard mate

[Vamps]

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=54.565773,-1.324421&spn=0.003116,0.006877&t=h&z=17

That's five minutes from my house! How queer!

5 mins from my office and 12 miles from my house

[theowletman]

Was Richard Branson there ?

[feeutfo]

so tell us more of this project,... Or why you cant tell us about it, whichever....

[Ziad]

break! We aint got ANY scrapyards here 

[The Red Baron]

quite a few odd looking shunters. class 14 maybe?.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Lol, that aerial pic is obviously from a few years ago.

They had.

1 off class 31 -  pretty well robbed as it had been used as a spares source for other 31's for many years.

2 off industial shunters - used to shift pot ash about when working, built like brick shite houses with 6 inch thick buffer beams, a Rolls Royce diesel engine and a nice household consumer unit as a fuse box plus household rads for cab heating!

2 off 08 Shunters, ex EWS, looked ok as all rods were still fitted and none of the cranks had slipped.

Loads of bits of class 56's about, a few EE V8 and V12's (including a rare one which would have had an alternator as it had starter motors fitted)

1 off Class 47 - cant remember the number but it was a 474xx, this was being cut up with no 1 cab already removed (they are aluminium so worth good cash!), the roof and sides from the engine compartment removed also......given a 47 is a stressed skin build, this results in the main bed bending until its belly touches the rails due to the 32 ton power plant inside!

And the one we went for.....a rare opportunity in preservation as this had been main line running until, whilst parked in a  siding in Gloucester, the pikeys robbed the cooper out of it (they also took half of the cooler group elements and some instruments......so maybe it wasn't pikeys!). Most times you get to recover parts, the loco has been sat in a siding for 6 years and used as a donor!

And yes, it was Thompsons, and no, you cant get in without knowing the right people and booking ahead.

[Marks DTM Calib]

so tell us more of this project,... Or why you cant tell us about it, whichever....

I can talk about the project....its this!



I just cant talk about the unfortunate donor!

[MikeDundee]

so tell us more of this project,... Or why you cant tell us about it, whichever....

I can talk about the project....its this!



I just cant talk about the unfortunate donor!

Did'nt it sign a donor card then ..........

[tunnie]

so tell us more of this project,... Or why you cant tell us about it, whichever....

I can talk about the project....its this!



I just cant talk about the unfortunate donor!

Was that unit at Marlybone last Friday? saw one just like it. Hauled a load of old coaches there for a steam special on Saturday.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Nope, not cleared for mainline running....although it can be dragged across the mainline.

[Del Boy]

And its the first time in years that I have been to a yard where you get stuck in and remove the items yourself

We have a car scrapyard like that here - excellent place...

We do too 

[feeutfo]

not happy with the Zafira then...? :-)


Sorry, before i get my coat, it looks ready to rock in the pic, what needs doing?

[Marks DTM Calib]

Ow, shes a good runner.

But, these are rare units now and they are the last of a kind.

They contain Davis and Metcalfe brake gear....no other classes after this one did plus many other items are unique. Once the last of them on the mainline are scrapped (a time growing ever closer) then the spares will dry up very quickly and if you run out of spares then your woking loco turns in to a museum exhibit.

So, you need a good spares stock!

And hence, we work like little squirrels obtaining useable spares to keep her going for the long term. Even if you dont use them, they can be used to trade for items you do need.

Big diesels are fast dissappearing off our railways with the UK designed and built ones being quite rare now (class 66's being Gm Canadian units)

[Marks DTM Calib]

so tell us more of this project,... Or why you cant tell us about it, whichever....

I can talk about the project....its this!



I just cant talk about the unfortunate donor!

Was that unit at Marlybone last Friday? saw one just like it. Hauled a load of old coaches there for a steam special on Saturday.

I am told that it was 47580