Barry Railway Paddle steamers

[Walter Snowdon]

Just out this month is  BARRY RAILWAY STEAMERS, a really complete book on this fascinating if lesser known fleet of paddlers. 224 pages beautifully printed with superb quailty photographs, and, to DOUBLE its value to us modellers, a fold out A3 size plan of PS GWALIA/DEVONIA. What more could you want?
 Witten by M.A.TEDSTONE, Published by THE OAKWOOD PRESS (WWW.oakwoodpress.co.uk) in paperback form. Price £14.95.

[Channel]

Page 106 has quite possibly the best ever paddle steamer shot of what in my eyes is one ofthe best looking paddlers around!

Chris

[Eddy Matthews]

And the paddler is???

You tease Chris!! 

Eddy

[Channel]

I'm on commision from Mike Tedstone ;-)

. . . . . . . it is the Barry.

Chris

[Eddy Matthews]

I'm on commision from Mike Tedstone ;-)

I was wondering!

I have to admit that I couldn't remember what the heck the Barry looked like, so I had to go and do a quick search to jog my fading brain cells.... Still not as nice as the Glen Sannox IMHO

Eddy

[mjt60a]

Would that be the one that was renamed Waverley between the sinking of the 1889 one and the building of the present waverley?

[Channel]

Thats the one - although I think she looked best as the Barry in her early years.

To give the company credit they certainly knew how to build a good looking ship . . the Gwalia and sister must have looked stunning too.

Chris

[AlistairD]

Barry was renamed Waverley in 1926 after the previous Waverley of 1885 had not been reconditioned after her service in World War One and scrapped in 1919.
She herself served as a minesweeper in the Second World War and was bombed and sunk off the North East Coast on 3 July 1941.
These were operated on the Bristol Channel, mainly, by P & A Campbell.
The present Waverley was built in 1947 for the London and North Eastern Railway for service on the Clydem, to replace the Waverley of 1899 which was sunk at Dunkirk

[Barry]

Anyone know of any plans for the Barry?

[djcf]

chris,
i agree the Barry is one of the nicest looking paddlers, i think there is something about her hull shape...the sheer forward & the flare of the bow, that makes her stand out. in her original livery she looks great.
clark

[R.G.Y.]

 They all joined P&A Campbells White Funnel fleet, to be with the very best the
"GLEN GOWER" 

[ancoaster78]

Anyone know of any plans for the Barry?

I have plans for the Gwalia/Devonia, both of which I personally prefer in their later Campbells colours, in which state I think them to be amongst the best looking paddlers ever! Both these two ships as well as Barry were all built by John Browns, I got the plans for Gwalia/Devonia from Glasgow University Archives and as by the same builder I imagine they will have Barry there as well, one day I intend to ask but funding needed elsewhere for now!

Cheers, Andrew