The Barry Railway: Its Docks & Successors

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Stephen K. Jones Newcomen Society [email protected]

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1 Barry, Its Railway and Port: Before and after Woodham’s Scrapyard. By John Hodge. Pp 200, 300 colour & black and white illustrations, maps and track diagrams. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Transport, 2018. £30 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-1526723833.

2 The locomotive and rolling stock that was accumulated for breaking up by Woodham Bros at Barry would be an important element in the railway preservation movement, leading to some 200 steam locomotives being rescued from scrapping. See http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/barry1.htm, Barry: The History of the Yard and Its Locomotives. By Peter Brabham. 256 pages, illustrated. Shepperton, Surrey: Oxford Publishing Co OPC, 2013. £35. Hardcover. ISBN 978-0860936435; and Barry Scrapyard. By Keith W. Platt. 96pp, illustrated. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing Limited, 2017. £14.99 (Paperback). ISBN 978-1445670768.

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Stephen K. Jones

Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, southwest of Cardiff. Sir John Wolfe Barry (1836-1918) was one of the most prominent civil engineers of the late 19th century. Born in London, Barry adopted Wolfe as part of his surname in 1897 following his knighthood. Barry Docks are named after the parish and island of Barry and not the man. Barry occurring here in two senses is a coincidence.