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Report - Inverkip II - The Return - Sept 2008

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BenCooper

Mr Boombastic
28DL Full Member
A few days after my very wet first visit, we returned in blazing sunshine for a second potter about - even took a packed lunch this time :)

My gf is a big fan of Downfallen's pictures, so she wanted me to take this:

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The very dry atmosphere and no scavengers means dead pigeons just fossilise:

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A pair of giant flues:

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A plumbing diagram of this place must be incredible:

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Looking down one of the open spaces:

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And looking even further down - we were standing on the 56.5m level, and that red floor is on the 4m level.

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The roof is much more pleasant in the sunshine (and without a police boat buzzing about):

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And all the way down to the ground floor:

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The controls for an overhead hoist:

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In the laboratory area, there are lots of taps for sampling water from different parts of the plant:

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The only plants we found inside the building seem to like sulphuric acid:

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Up onto the gantry, we felt very exposed - especially as those radiators on the turbine floor had an inspection note less than a month old on them:

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I climbed up into one of the crane cabs:

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And walked along the crane to a view down into the turbine hall:

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Searching for the control room, we found the battery backup rooms:

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Unfortunately the control room itself was securely locked up:

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I tried stitching a panorama on the roof - a strange result, but quite cool :)

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And from the gantry, two of the turbines:

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As usual, lots more pictures are in my Flickr set...
 

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