Hello all, I'm still alive and kicking 
It's been well over a year since I've posted a report on here, but that's not through lack of doing anything, in fact the complete opposite really I've just not had the time!
Anyway, thought I'd share this one as it's a bit special. Already reported on by a few, but nothing since 2015. Was it still there? Was it complete? Had it reopened? A quick google had bought up news of an explosion in early 2017, but seemingly nothing since then. Wikipedia said it was earmarked for closure, but how up-to-date was that information? We were basically going in blind. But fuck it, it's Christmas and all that so off to Newport we went, myself @slayaaaa and one of the @WildBoyz not really knowing what we would see, how we would do it or even really exactly where it was.
We picked one of the wettest nights of the year it seems to attempt this, but it didn't deter us. Whenever I visit Wales it always rains - ask @Lenston . Once we saw it was still there and with lights on inside we were all the more determined to see this one though. The only problem with power stations is they're not exactly known for their ease of access and this one is no exception. It's surrounded on all of it's accessible sides by a not-too-wide-but-slightly-too-wide-to-jump-over ditch which is filled with manky water that stinks when you disturb it. Add to that the incredibly thick overgrowth of brambles and the second even wider and deeper ditch inside the first and you have a bit of a challenge on your hands. We were certainly limited as to how we could approach this one. Fast forward 3 hours and we were in.
So Uskmouth is supposed to be being converted into biomass, at least that was the last thing I can really find about the station on-line. Bullshit! They're doing absolutely nothing with it. It still looks exactly the same as the photos from 2015, not a single thing has changed by the looks of it. It feels at first glance like a derelict station - access to conveyors is welded up, doors are bolted shut and a thick layer of dust covers everything. But then on the flip side, air lines are charged, control panels and computers are on and there's fresh milk in the fridge. Go figure.
As others have said previously this is a wonderfully retro station, stuck in the past and never fully modernised. Built at that time when they hadn't quite developed modern techniques, so they were still building them like they did pre-war. the building is brick, the control rooms are fantastically retro and there's some great features left like loads of original lamps which aren't used anymore, but have just been disconnected and left on the walls.
Anyway, enough rambling on, we start our journey at the coal loading floor.
And continue in the turbine hall
he control room(s) were absolutely fantastic. Uskmouth has one control room per generator set instead of one large one and they were all identical to each other. This was the only one the lights seemed to work in. The main operational parts were pretty much still as they would have been in the late 50's, all the modern stuff related to carbon capture and other monitoring equipment. It was great to see!
I loved the "Lubrication Legend"
And there we have it, a small but sweet little power station. What the future holds for it who knows, there's literally no indication of what they might or might not being doing with the place, it's just sitting in limbo awaiting its fate. My only regret is not taking more photos, but I was absolutely knackered by the time we actually got inside the place.
Thanks for looking!
Maniac.
EDIT: I don't know what this forum software does when you upload photos to it, but it's totally ruined those, that's not how they should look.
It's been well over a year since I've posted a report on here, but that's not through lack of doing anything, in fact the complete opposite really I've just not had the time!
Anyway, thought I'd share this one as it's a bit special. Already reported on by a few, but nothing since 2015. Was it still there? Was it complete? Had it reopened? A quick google had bought up news of an explosion in early 2017, but seemingly nothing since then. Wikipedia said it was earmarked for closure, but how up-to-date was that information? We were basically going in blind. But fuck it, it's Christmas and all that so off to Newport we went, myself @slayaaaa and one of the @WildBoyz not really knowing what we would see, how we would do it or even really exactly where it was.
We picked one of the wettest nights of the year it seems to attempt this, but it didn't deter us. Whenever I visit Wales it always rains - ask @Lenston . Once we saw it was still there and with lights on inside we were all the more determined to see this one though. The only problem with power stations is they're not exactly known for their ease of access and this one is no exception. It's surrounded on all of it's accessible sides by a not-too-wide-but-slightly-too-wide-to-jump-over ditch which is filled with manky water that stinks when you disturb it. Add to that the incredibly thick overgrowth of brambles and the second even wider and deeper ditch inside the first and you have a bit of a challenge on your hands. We were certainly limited as to how we could approach this one. Fast forward 3 hours and we were in.
So Uskmouth is supposed to be being converted into biomass, at least that was the last thing I can really find about the station on-line. Bullshit! They're doing absolutely nothing with it. It still looks exactly the same as the photos from 2015, not a single thing has changed by the looks of it. It feels at first glance like a derelict station - access to conveyors is welded up, doors are bolted shut and a thick layer of dust covers everything. But then on the flip side, air lines are charged, control panels and computers are on and there's fresh milk in the fridge. Go figure.
As others have said previously this is a wonderfully retro station, stuck in the past and never fully modernised. Built at that time when they hadn't quite developed modern techniques, so they were still building them like they did pre-war. the building is brick, the control rooms are fantastically retro and there's some great features left like loads of original lamps which aren't used anymore, but have just been disconnected and left on the walls.
Anyway, enough rambling on, we start our journey at the coal loading floor.
And continue in the turbine hall
he control room(s) were absolutely fantastic. Uskmouth has one control room per generator set instead of one large one and they were all identical to each other. This was the only one the lights seemed to work in. The main operational parts were pretty much still as they would have been in the late 50's, all the modern stuff related to carbon capture and other monitoring equipment. It was great to see!
I loved the "Lubrication Legend"
And there we have it, a small but sweet little power station. What the future holds for it who knows, there's literally no indication of what they might or might not being doing with the place, it's just sitting in limbo awaiting its fate. My only regret is not taking more photos, but I was absolutely knackered by the time we actually got inside the place.
Thanks for looking!
Maniac.
EDIT: I don't know what this forum software does when you upload photos to it, but it's totally ruined those, that's not how they should look.
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