Urban Exploring Videos

Well I have been rather quiet of late, not even been on FB for months!!
Anyway going through some old bits and put this short timelapse together.
The Teesside Steelworks was founded by Dorman Long in 1917 with the opening of the blast furnace. They were no strangers to the business as mid 19th century they were running thirty blast furnaces in the area. In 1918 the Cleveland works opened all that remains here is the coke works surrounded by a vast amount of baron land. Then in the 1940's they purchased the land between Cleveland Works and the blast furnace to build the Lackenby site.
In 1979 the blast furnace you see here was built and the others were shut down. The largest in the UK and could produce over 3,000,000 tonnes annually.
During this time Dorman Long become established globally in bridge construction. The most famous bridge they built was the Sydney Harbour Bridge but I would say the most impressive accomplishment would be the Storstrøm Bridge in Denmark spanning 3199 metres and set on 49 separate piers.
In 2015 the sites ceased all production with a loss of around 1700 jobs.

 

 

 

A short video of some Mark 2 Coaching stock abandoned in Scotland.

 

Hey, thought you guys might enjoy some of my Scottish explores.
Feel free to pm for more information.

 

The train in question is the Eurostar 373018, one of many Eurostar Class 373 trains that started operating in 1994. Capable of speeds up to 186 mph, the Class 373s were specifically designed to transport passengers between London, Paris, and Brussels via the Channel Tunnel.

Since 2016, however, many 373s have been withdrawn or scrapped, despite just 22 or 23 years in service. Eurostar 373018 is officially in storage, but the word “abandoned” seems more appropriate.

Branches from nearby trees now reach out and touch its windows. Weeds rise up from the rusting tracks on which it sits. Graffiti covers what were once the clean lines of the train’s streamlined form. It looks like the kind of place where Rick Grimes would butcher a bunch of zombies, or where Mad Max would go shopping if he wanted to buy a train.

What the future holds for this high-speed train is anyone’s guess. So far, 18 of the 373 Class trains have been sent to be scrapped by European Metal Recycling (EMR) at Kingsbury in the West Midlands region of England. Others have been scrapped in France, three have ended up in museums or colleges, and some lucky 373s have been refurbished and remain in service.

Eurostar 373018, however, remains in “storage” in the north of France, a fine nesting place for birds, an interesting canvas for graffiti artists, and an intriguing landmark for train enthusiasts, eagle-eyed users of Google Earth, and urban explorers like AdcaZz whose video exploration of the train you can check out on YouTube.

And if you’re wondering why these 373s were abandoned and not reused elsewhere, well, it seems like a few factors were in play. Technology had simply moved on, leaving these 22-year-old trains out of date. It was also more cost efficient to bring in a modern fleet rather than overhaul these existing trains, especially as the replacements had a greater seating capacity, meaning more money over less time. In the end, therefore, many of the 373s were deemed “life-expired.”

There is more about the Eurostar here

 

I shot this video on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera
You can find the building on the a45 in Warwickshire.

 

I know many people are not too keen about videos on here and prefer pictures but I do love to make videos when I am exploring because it captures my raw reaction of what I am seeing. Anyways here's a video I made on the Purford Green Primary School and it would be very much appreciated if you checked it out.

 

Boys and girls!

We tried to show the Chernobyl zone from a bit different perspective. Production values are low, script was made on the spot and all was all fuelled by some amount of Ukrainian vodka, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

We have also visited not so widely known antenna array near the Russian Woodpecker. The actual antennas are all cut into pieces for scrap now but we were lucky to find a layer of ice in the otherwise inaccessible building basement, where the remains of the main control room can be found. (Second video)

The Circle radar array is believed to be a complementary system to the Duga radar and its main purpose was testing signal propagation the the ionosphere to optimise working frequency of the the Russian Woodpecker.

 

Hello everyone!

As you may know Earnley Education Centre has sparked new interest in the area of Chichester. I decided to take full advantage of this and take a trip with @Smidgey88 to explore it before the kids took over. And what can I say! it was much bigger and more interesting than I was expecting. If you have the chance to check it out please do, you won't regreat it at all.

We began our explore by parking in the carpark next door (Convenient) and then we began rolling the video! We started at 6:30pm and finished at 11:00pm. Never thought I would be in there that long! Without boring you more with my chatter, here is the video from our visit. I hope you enjoy it, and I hope it meets the quality guidlines on this forum.

Also I may post my photos on the forum if people are interested to see them also!