Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Barry Scrapyard
Barry Scrapyard
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Casgliad rhyfeddol o ffotograffau prin, nas cyhoeddwyd cyn hyn, o iard sgrap eiconig y Barri. Yno, cartrefwyd dros 200 o drenau stêm am nifer o flynyddoedd yn ystod ail hanner yr 20fed ganrif, hyd nes iddynt gael eu gwerthu i amryfal gymdeithasau a grwpiau cadwraeth.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
A fascinating collection of rare and unpublished photographs of the iconic Barry Scrapyard. Over 200 redundant steam locomotives were housed there for many years during the second half of the 20th century before being sold to various preservation groups and societies.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781445670768
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781445670768
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Barry Scrapyard
- Awdur / Author
- Platt, Keith W.
- Current Price ex VAT
- £14.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £14.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2017-10-19
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 96 pages
- Size
- 156 × 234 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Hanes, Hanes Lleol, Arferion Gwlad, Llên Gwerin (yn Saesneg) | EN: History, Welsh Life and Customs, Local History, Folk Tales (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Hanes Lleol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Local History (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Keith Platt is a lifelong railway and transport enthusiast who has been documenting the rail scene with his camera since a young age. Now, fifty years on, many of his photos are finding a new life.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Keith W. Platt made his first visit to Woodham's scrapyard, Barry, in the late 1960s at a time when steam locomotives could still be seen on the national network, going about the everyday business of working goods and passenger trains. With the final withdrawal of steam operations, he began to make more visits to Barry as it became the very last bastion of British Railway's steam locomotives. Keith sought to record, on slide film, the images of locomotives and the photos taken on those trips inadvertently reveal the gradual blossoming of the preservation movement. The number of locomotives in the yard shrunk – not because they had been cut up, but because they had been sold to individuals and societies. They had been removed to one of the many preservation sites and steam railways. The appearance of the locos began to change over the years. Firstly as the damp and salty sea air took its toll on the paintwork and bare metal and then as different preservation groups set about the task of de-rusting, cleaning and painting. Many locos were adorned with various painted messages proclaiming the status of the ownership and asking that parts should not be removed. Keith’s last visits to the yard were very different. There were only a few locomotives left waiting to find a new home; the lines of hundreds of locos, which had been packed closely together, was now a mere memory.
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