So, we were at the top of the Blast Furnace, and @SpiderMonkey calls me over. "That chimney looks familiar, just like Littlebrook.... You don't think it's a....."
Looking at the not too distant building, I thought the same thing, "Yep, looks like one to me too". A few minutes later we're having a look around the building and finding a way in to the power station.
The station has six turbines in total, with three different designs of varying ages. Fuelled by a combination of blast furnace gas and coke oven gas, both by-products of the steel-making processes.
Before we left we had a quick hunt around for the control room. Looking through a door into a nice clean, well lit corridor we knew we were close so we opened the door and headed in. No sooner had we took one step we heard whistling. We froze and then quickly reversed. As the corridor's door closed I saw through the window a man dressed in overalls walk out of a side-room and turn towards us. Amazingly he didn't spot us and presumably he didn't think anything odd about the door at the end of the corridor closing on it's own. So, no control room shots which is a shame as I suspect this place will have a nice one.
Quite a happy find with @SpiderMonkey and Jamie_P. Not as many pictures as I'd have liked due to taking an empty spare battery, oops, but monkey boy will have more soon
1. Boiler house
2. Boiler House - gas feeds at the top
3. Boiler House
4. Boiler house
5. Blast furnace gas pipe - love this retro signage
6. Switch bank
7. Turbine hall
8. Old turbines
9. Big silver turbines
10. Turbine hall
11. One of the more modern turbines.
12. Things.
13. These turbines appeared to have been out of commission for a while
14. View from crane
15. Turbines
Looking at the not too distant building, I thought the same thing, "Yep, looks like one to me too". A few minutes later we're having a look around the building and finding a way in to the power station.
The station has six turbines in total, with three different designs of varying ages. Fuelled by a combination of blast furnace gas and coke oven gas, both by-products of the steel-making processes.
Before we left we had a quick hunt around for the control room. Looking through a door into a nice clean, well lit corridor we knew we were close so we opened the door and headed in. No sooner had we took one step we heard whistling. We froze and then quickly reversed. As the corridor's door closed I saw through the window a man dressed in overalls walk out of a side-room and turn towards us. Amazingly he didn't spot us and presumably he didn't think anything odd about the door at the end of the corridor closing on it's own. So, no control room shots which is a shame as I suspect this place will have a nice one.
Quite a happy find with @SpiderMonkey and Jamie_P. Not as many pictures as I'd have liked due to taking an empty spare battery, oops, but monkey boy will have more soon
1. Boiler house
2. Boiler House - gas feeds at the top
3. Boiler House
4. Boiler house
5. Blast furnace gas pipe - love this retro signage
6. Switch bank
7. Turbine hall
8. Old turbines
9. Big silver turbines
10. Turbine hall
11. One of the more modern turbines.
12. Things.
13. These turbines appeared to have been out of commission for a while
14. View from crane
15. Turbines
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