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© David Meaden
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It could also be the other way round David …………:roll::roll:……………………………………………………The railway preservation world owes such a debt to the late Dai Woodham.
I don't think Dai Woodham was at all philanthropic - stuff was arriving faster than he could cut it up……… :roll:
He realised there was money to be made out of selling locos to enthusiasts and wouldn't have the bother of cutting them up. He didn't lose a penny on any of the preserved locos and, in many cases, made far more than their scrap value.
In his defence, he did hang on to locos until the enthusiasts could raise his asking price (but only because he had plenty of other things to cut up …………)
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4556 with a passenger train approaches Boncath.
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[user=1342]mynnyddog[/user] wrote:It could also be the other way round David …………:roll::roll:……………………………………………………The railway preservation world owes such a debt to the late Dai Woodham.
I don't think Dai Woodham was at all philanthropic - stuff was arriving faster than he could cut it up……… :roll:
He realised there was money to be made out of selling locos to enthusiasts and wouldn't have the bother of cutting them up. He didn't lose a penny on any of the preserved locos and, in many cases, made far more than their scrap value.
In his defence, he did hang on to locos until the enthusiasts could raise his asking price (but only because he had plenty of other things to cut up …………)
To be fair, he was busy scrapping wagons before he thought about the enthusiasts.
The wagons were easy, and gave a quick return, also clearing space for more scrap!
The idea (for preservation) came from the enthusiasts, although he saw the plus side
for himself!
Jeff
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cheers
Marty
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Really, who cares, it was a win win situation. Wood ham made better money from sellingthelocos on under the banner of an ongoing concern than he did as scrap,and the preservationists were given time to get the dosh together ( in most cases ). Illbettheywerealso give the opportunity to amass some spare parts as well. Sound…….
The book does make reference tothe fact that the loco's were not to be sold on in an " operational condition" so I don't know what state of disrepair they would have to had been in. I f anyone actually checked that is.
Fascinating none the less.
The book is well worth a read.
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Another pic of a 'Small prairie', one of the last 6, in working order , shedded at Southall in '64, note the kinked running plate.
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Alan
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Alan
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Thanks for posting
Doug
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The last small prairies( 5508/31/45/64/69/71) were transferred to Southall to work the Brentford branch as at the time it was heavily industrialized with much rail born traffic, the 350's weren't fast enough to cope, and I was lucky enough to see all of them on my forays to 81C, when I didn't get slung out by the shed foreman.
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Alan
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http://brdatabase.info/
go into 'menu' - sites- depot . Then scroll down to required depot, go to the depot then the list has 'snapshot' that will give you the allocation on a given month/year.
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