End of an Era

SandTEngineer

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End of an Era

« on: November 02, 2019, 20:45:29 »

This cropped up elsewhere. Ironbridge is of course a site of huge historical significance, and its supprising that the power station, although only dating from 1969, wasn't retained in some form for future posterity:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-50221896


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CyclingSid

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Re: End of an Era

« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2019, 09:40:25 »

Just hope they don't engage either of the contractors that Didcot used.


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onthecushions

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Re: End of an Era

« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2019, 19:16:55 »

"The power station was switched off when it reached its 20,000 hours limit of generation under an EU^» directive."

(BBC^» report)

Sad to see all that UK^▸ made gear being torched

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CyclingSid

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Re: End of an Era

« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2019, 07:08:02 »

Or in the case of Didcot being exported to Germany, which presumably means it wasn't that bad.


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Bmblbzzz

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Re: End of an Era

« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2019, 10:24:36 »

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Next door to the towers is the cavernous turbine hall, where you could be forgiven for thinking you have wandered on to the set of a Mad Max sci-fi film.

What it makes me think of is Planet of the Apes.


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onthecushions

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Re: End of an Era

« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2019, 22:23:06 »

Quote from: CyclingSid on November 04, 2019, 07:08:02

Or in the case of Didcot being exported to Germany, which presumably means it wasn't that bad.

Do you mean the (SGT?) transformers going to Siemens? For re-use or re-cycling?

Presumably they were UK^▸ made GEC units.

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rogerw

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Re: End of an Era

« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2019, 20:11:31 »

Cooling towers now demolished.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-shropshire-50686225/ironbridge-power-station-cooling-towers-brought-down
I loved the comment of the lady interviewed at the end.


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