I'm including this in other sites rather than military as it's primary use was civilian. Contrary to what other posts on here might say the site is not from WW2.
The photos are from around 2010 when the site was advertised for sale by informal tender. I've not looked back through older posts but hopefully some slightly different views than others posted.
Built in 1955/56 by Shell Refining Co. Ltd for the distribution of white oil products. Fed by pipelines with onward distribution by rail and road. Connected to the GPSS pipeline network via the P/B pipeline to Backford PSD. When we talk of a pipeline it is misleading as almost all of the runs used multiple pipelines. In the case of Goostrey there were four 8" pipelines to bring segregated fuel in. Six 4000 ton C2 tanks with earth covering for main storage along with one slop tank. If you look at the area of the site you probably wouldn't realise it's importance and actual throughput......the rail sidings would have told a different story but they are long removed (memory suggests mid to late 70's....certainly before the Falklands conflict) . Four lines of forty tankers could be filled and there were extensive shunting areas to accomodate movements on site when required. Two shunters were stabled in their own shed/workshop. The paved road tanker yard had seven gantries capable of simultaneously serving ten road tankers.
The offices of the Manchester Jetline (operated by Unipen) were also based on the site until they moved to Backford North.
Post fuel depot usage the office block was used by a local sprout group and strangely they seemed to have left some of their camping eqiuipment in storage there when they stopped using the building.
Taken ot of use after the Falklands conflict and finally sold off by Defence Estates in 2011. The new owner planned to use the site for electricity generation using anaerobic digesters of cow farming effluent. This wasn't popular with locals and the project seemed to have stalled. More recently some parts of the site have been cleared but I don't know if this is related to that project or something else. It is certainly worth removing the metal from the tanks for their scrap value now (which is what the owner of PSD Beeston has been doing).
On with some photos.
!973 and one of the rail tanker gantry lines is full
Same era showing the main site and the railway site
Main gate
Rear of stanby set building
Road tanker loading area
One of the three central gantry points (covers and fuel booms long gone)
One of the four side points
Dead sprout?
The photos are from around 2010 when the site was advertised for sale by informal tender. I've not looked back through older posts but hopefully some slightly different views than others posted.
Built in 1955/56 by Shell Refining Co. Ltd for the distribution of white oil products. Fed by pipelines with onward distribution by rail and road. Connected to the GPSS pipeline network via the P/B pipeline to Backford PSD. When we talk of a pipeline it is misleading as almost all of the runs used multiple pipelines. In the case of Goostrey there were four 8" pipelines to bring segregated fuel in. Six 4000 ton C2 tanks with earth covering for main storage along with one slop tank. If you look at the area of the site you probably wouldn't realise it's importance and actual throughput......the rail sidings would have told a different story but they are long removed (memory suggests mid to late 70's....certainly before the Falklands conflict) . Four lines of forty tankers could be filled and there were extensive shunting areas to accomodate movements on site when required. Two shunters were stabled in their own shed/workshop. The paved road tanker yard had seven gantries capable of simultaneously serving ten road tankers.
The offices of the Manchester Jetline (operated by Unipen) were also based on the site until they moved to Backford North.
Post fuel depot usage the office block was used by a local sprout group and strangely they seemed to have left some of their camping eqiuipment in storage there when they stopped using the building.
Taken ot of use after the Falklands conflict and finally sold off by Defence Estates in 2011. The new owner planned to use the site for electricity generation using anaerobic digesters of cow farming effluent. This wasn't popular with locals and the project seemed to have stalled. More recently some parts of the site have been cleared but I don't know if this is related to that project or something else. It is certainly worth removing the metal from the tanks for their scrap value now (which is what the owner of PSD Beeston has been doing).
On with some photos.
!973 and one of the rail tanker gantry lines is full
Same era showing the main site and the railway site
Main gate
Rear of stanby set building
Road tanker loading area
One of the three central gantry points (covers and fuel booms long gone)
One of the four side points
Dead sprout?
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