Site: SSI Power Station, Redcar | Status: Decommissioned | Present: January 2016 - AJ & Bunk3r
Better late than never is the best way to describe my reports. I’ve not seen too many photographs from the control room or gasometers so I thought I’d contribute mine. We visited the power station on a couple of occasions in January. Navigating the SSI site is challenging, but not too stressful. The power station itself is dark and gritty, featuring six turbines.
Our second and final visit to the power station was purely in search of the control room. Unlike the first visit, the internal door connecting the turbine hall to the admin block was left unlocked. We walked down the corridor to find an emergency fire exit map on the wall and turned right, through a double set of doors and straight into the control room. The panels were still illuminated, computer systems running and 'save our steel' written about the room. The remaining rooms of the admin block are still outstanding. The first floor map displays the control room itself, a locker room and another room which was planned to be the new control room. The ground floor is unknown, most likely labs.
Situated nearby to the power station are two gasometers which fueled the power station, blast furnace and Redcar coke ovens. We went for the larger and closer of the two which held blast furnace gas. Internally, and unlike most other gas holders I've seen on here, an elevator runs up the centre of the holder instead of a staircase. This is the highest point on-site offering panoramic views of the steelmaking process.
Better late than never is the best way to describe my reports. I’ve not seen too many photographs from the control room or gasometers so I thought I’d contribute mine. We visited the power station on a couple of occasions in January. Navigating the SSI site is challenging, but not too stressful. The power station itself is dark and gritty, featuring six turbines.
Our second and final visit to the power station was purely in search of the control room. Unlike the first visit, the internal door connecting the turbine hall to the admin block was left unlocked. We walked down the corridor to find an emergency fire exit map on the wall and turned right, through a double set of doors and straight into the control room. The panels were still illuminated, computer systems running and 'save our steel' written about the room. The remaining rooms of the admin block are still outstanding. The first floor map displays the control room itself, a locker room and another room which was planned to be the new control room. The ground floor is unknown, most likely labs.
Situated nearby to the power station are two gasometers which fueled the power station, blast furnace and Redcar coke ovens. We went for the larger and closer of the two which held blast furnace gas. Internally, and unlike most other gas holders I've seen on here, an elevator runs up the centre of the holder instead of a staircase. This is the highest point on-site offering panoramic views of the steelmaking process.
