The ‘lost’ S15 in Dai Woodham’s scrapyard

Having read Geoff Courtney’s piece in News, issue 297, about the 50 years since SR S15 4-6-0 No. 30841 was rescued from Barry scrapyard and it losing its identity, here is a picture I took of it at Barry in June 1967. It is one of many photographs I took of engines stored at Barry at that time.

David Cawthra, email

DAVID CAWTHRA Southern Railway S15 4-6-0 No. 30841, which went to Barry scrapyard after being withdrawn in January 1964 and moved to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in 1978. Its fames were found to be out of alignment, and it was rebuilt using the set from sister No. 30825, whose identity it now carries.