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Title: End of an Era Post by: SandTEngineer 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 Title: Re: End of an Era Post by: CyclingSid on November 03, 2019, 09:40:25 Just hope they don't engage either of the contractors that Didcot used.
Title: Re: End of an Era Post by: onthecushions 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 OTC Title: Re: End of an Era Post by: 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.
Title: Re: End of an Era Post by: Bmblbzzz on November 04, 2019, 10:24:36 Quote 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. Title: Re: End of an Era Post by: onthecushions on November 05, 2019, 22:23:06 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. OTC Title: Re: End of an Era Post by: rogerw 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 (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. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |