Kingsnorth Powerstation
Built on the site of the former World War I airship base RNAS Kingsnorth, Kingsnorth power station was constructed between 1963 and 1973 by the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB)
From 1975 to the early 1980's, Kingsnorth was linked to the London power grid by HVDC Kingsnorth, one of the few examples of high-voltage direct current transmission in use at the time
The station closed as a result of the EU's Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD) ,on 17th December 2012, having consumed all its LCPD hours
This was a result of the station not being equipped with Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) technology to close after 20,000 hours of operation from 1 January 2008 or the end of 2015, which ever came first
Demolition of the site commenced in October 2014[/QUOTE]
In 2007 Greenpiss took the peace out of criminal trespass as we know it
Having been served a high court injunction to piss off having rolled Gordon down the chim and later evading court action they were acquitted on grounds of
"they were legally justified in their actions to prevent climate change from causing greater damage to property around the world"
It was the first case, where preventing property damage caused by climate change has been used as part of a "lawful excuse" defence in court
Sounds like a perfectly good invite to me..
Myself GAJ & Keitei took 2 trips out here before we managed in, the first trip was merely a recce as we agreed we'd never just ball into any of these sites and have a little respect, despite it being one of the last ones we did
We sussed 2 possible ways in on that visit, the first one wasn't ideal given the conditions on said evening
The second way in wasn't ideal either, as it dropped in right by a couple of camera's, one of which was fairly new and certainly wasn't part of the legacy dual-fired coal and oil power stations security set up
I'm happy we did the right thing and returned, besides we wouldn't have had enough time anyway, still we managed to note that there was still activity even at silly o'clock
We returned about a week later, much earlier to allow ourselves more time to monitor activity and attempt to work a route through the site
Just getting to our intended point of access was a right mission in itself, and to have had to have done it twice wasn't ideal
Cold, muddy and soaked before we even hit the perimeter leccy fence wasn't my idea of fun at the time,
although looking back the smiles on our faces when we walked away having managed a few snaps amongst the workers and cameras were worth it!
Having managed to tackle a route beyond the electric fence and cctv it was a right faff getting anywhere near to the main spectacle, thankfully there were enough bits & bobs to duck, dip dive & dodge behind along the way
Although the site is now demolished I'm still going to refrain from referring to access related information, as typically it's useful for similar sites
For anyone who's never bothered to put any effort into these places, then I'm afraid you'll have to go and play out in your own time
There was one final dash required between some very open bits before we could begin to head into the bowels of the station..
Just as we decided it was time to make a run for it, I heard voices, although faint I wasn't happy, and prob took me a further 5 mins to convince the others I wasn't hearing things
Some workers were filling a tank right by where we were aiming for, and they took an absolute age before it was even remotely safe to advance
They were driving about quite frequently, that and along with security doing a regular patrol around
In the end a right mission with a lot of waiting around and dashing between bits of the site to avoid the engineers, secca and cctv in order for a look in
It turned out the fuss was worth it, and Kingsnorth was one of my favourites for a few different reasons
Excuse the handheld specials here, thankfully the extra light and high iso worked in my favour a bit more on this one compared to the others
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Here, the coal processing area and bunker on the way to the boiler house
(Shockingly bad pic of coal conveyor)
Onwards into, up and through the boiler house in search of turb0nZ
I only managed a few insignificant handheld runners from within the boiler house as we passed through...
Turb0nZ
We were about to leave the turbine hall and just moments after I took this last pic, a flatbed drove in and they proceeded to load parts onto it before leaving
It was just like Inverkip all over again, another fond memory of a site that will never leave me
TURBEX
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