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BR Class 25 25228, Glasgow Eastfield, 22nd. August 1981 Loco soon to be transferred south to England for the last year or so of its life.  One of many 25s that ended up on the infamous "stack" at Vic Berry's Leicester scrapyard.
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BR Class 25 25261, Derby Works. BR Class 25 25261 - or what's left of it - comes to a grizzly end at Derby Works on 29th. October 1983.  The cutting up was apparently contracted out to Vic Berry, whose yard at Leicester became a famous (infamous) graveyard for many other members of this class.
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BR Class 85 85019, Vic Berry's Scrapyard, Leicester A visit to Vic Berry's scrap yard in Leicester on the evening of 26th. August 1990 presents the sad sight of 85019, keeping company with two Irish locomotives and miscellaneous coaching stock.
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BR Rolling stock stacked up at Vic Berry's Scrapyard in Leicester on 26th. August 1990.
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Vic Berry's Scrapyard, Leicester. A slightly fuzzy shot taken in fading evening light of Class 47s (or remains thereof) and EMU coaching stock stacked up at Vic Berry's Scrapyard on 26th. August 1990.  47113 had been withdrawn after an accident at Ripple Lane in 1988.
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