Report - Kingsnorth Power Station - Control Room / GT's / Coal Plant - July 2017

[Exploring with Andy]

I never made it to Kingsnorth before demolition started, sadly. @SpiderMonkey and I did manage to visit before the control was demolished, however. As a bonus, we got to see the gas turbines and the coal plant control room too. But no turbs.

Not much of the power station remained

What we missed (picture on display in the control block)

Control Room Pictures

Sad

Gas Turbines
(Well, the generators)

Coal Plant Control Room

See ya!

 

[Bugsuperstar]

That ceiling is nuts. Gives the place a right science fiction look. Good stuff!

 

[Brewtal]

Very nice indeed! Love the last shot!

 

[Terminal Decline]

Fuck me that was stunning. Utterly gutted Olkka and I missed it by a matter of months!

 

[Ojay]

Always rated this place, pics are very good indeed!

I particularly like this one ♥

 

[Exploring with Andy]

Always rated this place, pics are very good indeed!

I particularly like this one ♥

Thanks, I merged two exposures in Photoshop, one for the inside and another for the view outside.

 

[Pammyj]

Love these!!

 

[Exploring with Andy]

Fuck me that was stunning. Utterly gutted Olkka and I missed it by a matter of months!

I'm gutted we missed the turbine hall. We had tried previously, but I was too tired and fell off the sea wall! We never got around to going back before it was too late.

 

[clebby]

Nice, didn’t realise you had seen this one! The office and research block remained standing for a while after the rest of the plant was demolished, not sure if anyone managed to poke around in there.

 

[obscurity]

lovely stuff mate, the area with the 'generators/gas turbines' is the museum, I visited when it was operational and the panel and turbine are original from the plant, there was also some other old items there which seem to have been cleared out. Seems most missed that bit after it closed.

 

[obscureserenity]

Very nice report mate. Loving that control room, looks like you got to see some pretty cool stuff before it was completely demoed.

 

[SpiderMonkey]

Shit, I forgot to add this to my big power station report!! Lovely photos, I'll break mine out some day I'm sure

Very well done mate.

 

[tigger]

...ahhhh....another pair of trousers ruined

Stunning.

 

[Exploring with Andy]

lovely stuff mate, the area with the 'generators/gas turbines' is the museum, I visited when it was operational and the panel and turbine are original from the plant, there was also some other old items there which seem to have been cleared out. Seems most missed that bit after it closed.

I'm not sure that was the same bit as we saw, this was the gas turbine house which was a separate building. The Rolls Royce turbine engines had been removed. Everything else was as it would have been when running, with the generators and control panels in their original places, and nothing additional in there. I didn't get any particularly wide shots of the room to show that though, due to poor light source and all the crap in the way. Below is the widest I got.

 

[darbians]

The coal plant control room is proper nice.