Most locos still have copper safety valve covers attached and other shots show cab backheads complete with dials and gauges.

The Swindon based Coopers' Metals had this breaker's yard here at California Sidings at Sharpness which was used to cut up a number of Western Region condemned locomotives during 1964 wth those situate at this top end of their yard going under the cutters' torches before the more recent arrivals further " down the line ".
For some reason , such operations ceased towards the end of 1964 , I believe , with a number of locomotives thereafter being " sold on " to Cashmores at Newport.
It may have been that there were too many locomotives here at Sharpness for the workforce to deal with , or perhaps operations had to cease for some other reason , who knows ?