diesel

We have been looking at the recent reports showing Delphi is in an even worse state then we we visited a year a go, what with the fire and everyone being able to access it, it's gone downhill fast. I thought it would be an excuse to get our visit up and show how it looked a year ago :) I won't...

Last Saturday it was an early start for me, Jet, Craner, and TheEther as we made the trip to Sudbury to check out the huge Delphi Diesel site. Access was almost criminally easy to all areas of the site and frankly it was an extremely enjoyable explore. The diesel company arrived in Sudbury in...

Lucas CAV/Delphi Diesel Systems, Sudbury, Suffolk - January 2024 A little overdue exploring this one, and a little overdue getting the report up tbh! I had been wanting to do this one for a while; and despite being stripped, it has some lovely light in it and some excellent photo opportunities...

I found myself in Suffolk with an empty afternoon, and decided to give the old Delphi site a crack as it was litreally minutes round the corner. It'd be rude not to right?! History Starting life in 1944 as CAV Engineering, the initial site in Sudbury was chosen as the Germans had information...

I remember seeing speeds original report on this place and thought it looked a great wander, but forgot about it. Then in the summer Dangas and Wastelandr gave it a look which sparked the interest. It’s not to far from me so planned to go with Jake and Man Gone Wrong. A few tips from dan and...

Introduction Me and @Wastelandr were keen to meet up for the first time as we have spoken quite a bit and we are both not a million miles away from each other, Wastelandr suggested taking a look at this factory which has been posted previously on here by Speed, he mentioned a factory in Sudbury...

An old diesel power plant in Germany. It was a part of some sort of factory, but I couldn't find any info about it. Could have been a textile factory. Many of the buildings were repurposed - ateliers and small workshops from what I could see. The area is wide open but the access into the...

Well this was a rare first for me nowadays, exploring somewhere that I used to work! In fact I worked here for nearly 9 years, doing my apprenticeship with the company after I left school and going on to do a couple of other roles before I moved on in 2013. Because of that I actually already...

"Neue DieselZentrale" Reading through several previous reports, blogs and spamming the internet with vague search terms wielded nothing but sheer disappointment to find any attached history for this absolutely amazing building. Unfortunately, all efforts for history research lead to items...

Visited with an old mate of mine after going on a wild goose chase trying a bunch of new places. We were in the area and I'd had it pinned for a while, we looked it up and saw another post on here so thought fuck it this is better than going home with nothing. I was actually shocked at just how...

Owned and specifically built for a corporation founded roughly 100 years ago that designs, manufactures, and distributes engines, filtration, and power generation products who also services engines and related equipment. This state of the art Diesel engine factory founded in the mid 1950’s...

Visited this one with @AndyK! and @darbians as the first real stop on a big week-long derp bonanza of some sort, after two fails the day before this (after a 12+ hour drive).  We had checked it out the night before, without much luck, so as it was getting late, and we were all suffering massive...

A modern diesel power plant! Great place to explore. No masks needed for entry ;) Thanks!

Hey, So just back from a tour of Belgium, too hot for me but still managed to cope with the heat and hit some locations with @starlight as a tour guide and accomplice for a few days. After making land at approximately 0130 local time our first stop after driving into Belgium was this place...

This is an abandoned diesel fuelled power station in Belgium with black start capability. Black start means it could be used to restore power in an electric power station at short notice in the event of a major power failure or blackout basically. A few of us had a look at this around a year ago...