Abandoned power station

[GLENNSPARK]

here:

Abandoned power station - YouTube

 

[PEG]

Shame on you,me poor old mum only went to morecambe bay to flog a few winkles,and some deviant snaps her sortin' out her hair...

 

[longboat]

I feel sick.
Looks like a great place to look around, shame some idiot decided it was a good place to try out his new camcorder.

 

[gnuuser]

yeah I would have loved to see some of the old gear like that restored

 

[Knobhead]

Weston Point was built and run by ICI. It was a ---- up to whether it should have been nuclear.

 

[Knobhead]

Just noticed in the video, the breakers are the same as our main crusher. It gave me the willies isolating it, a 3.3KV knife switch. No interlocks to the OCB, you could operate it under load. It would be the last thing you ever did!
We added an on load isolator close to the motor. It lasted a month before blowing up. The original breaker and knife switch was installed in 1948.

RoB will confirm if you close a DMO (Dependant Manual Operation) OCB on to load, they fight back. You really have to go for it otherwise you’re toast.

If anyone’s interested there is a HSE document on DMO switchgear. Makes interesting reading, made me think I must have been bloody mad! But it was what we were brought up with from being an apprentice.

 

[7029 dave]

Intresting, shame it's now off the bar!!,how many more?.

 

[telectrix]

and from weston point, on a clear day, you can see most of liverpool. makes one homesick.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

and from weston point, on a clear day, you can see most of liverpool. makes one homesick.

just spotted a mistake in your post tel...

here..i`v highlighted it for you...

 

[telectrix]

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[GLENNSPARK]

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take a joke Tel...

 

[telectrix]

can take a joke, no problem, just not seeing it. could be altzeimers or lack of beer.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

The station in Glenn's original video is in Australia, where there seem to be more intact sites like this that haven't been looted or bulldozed. My mate Richard who is part of the Electrokinetica team (although he lives in Aus, he's the webmaster etc) has reported back some interesting things.

Keep looking, we need an old power station. I've had a go at commandeering a couple of subs but no success so far! It's much easier to move vacuum cleaners, irons and radios into an old turbine hall than to move a turbo-alternator into a radio showroom. My ideal site would be an old electrical factory in a location that's not good for housing development, with its own PS, next to a large cinema that's been closed for 40 years. No luck so far...

 

[GLENNSPARK]

there was the old Whitehall electric lighting station in Leeds...

the CEGB had used it for a training centre for years...now sadly its gone....they built a post office centre on it...

Kirkstall power station was another candidate for a museum...built 1933...a private venture...

it closed down in 1979 i think...thats gone as well but so far the land hasn`t been built on...asbestos contamination

both these units would have been suitable as industrial museums...

lack of foresight at the time i suppose....but there you go...

 

[Fin170]

Guess I can consider myself semi lucky to be involved in decommissioning nuclear power stations and getting to see a lot of the 50s controls, distribution gear,panel work etc.....before spending days decabling it. The video in OP is not to dissimilar

Anything made by Parsons would still be working even if the building fell on it, rock solid heavy stuff

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Guess I can consider myself semi lucky to be involved in decommissioning nuclear power stations and getting to see a lot of the 50s controls, distribution gear,panel work etc.....before spending days decabling it. The video in OP is not to dissimilar

Anything made by Parsons would still be working even if the building fell on it, rock solid heavy stuff

the original turbine launch that he built to showcase his new invention at the 1897 naval review at spithead still exists....

 

[Silly Sausage]

went past that an hour or so ago. at rock savage, yes?

Indeed it is, I used to work there.
The Cell rooms where they extract the chlorine from the Cheshire brine are something else!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Indeed it is, I used to work there.
The Cell rooms where they extract the chlorine from the Cheshire brine are something else!

styrigg a ligg a ligg a ligg a ligg.....

 

[Lucien Nunes]

Here's a pic of my own baby Parsons turbine, built 1951, 4MW(e) output. I don't have the alternator, only the turbine, plan is to raise the upper casing on pillars and have the shaft turning slowly so you can see the rotors moving.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Here's a pic of my own baby Parsons turbine, built 1951, 4MW(e) output. I don't have the alternator, only the turbine, plan is to raise the upper casing on pillars and have the shaft turning slowly so you can see the rotors moving.
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so..in the image you have posted here Lucien..its been lifted from the condenser....

 

[Lucien Nunes]

Yes, what you see is what you get, just the turbine, steam valve and a few ancillaries. It had been driving a test bed at Parsons Newcastle plant after the mine it powered was closed. IIRC the condenser was scrapped but the turbine was in reasonable nick so they kept hold of it.