{"id":279,"date":"2008-09-15T09:05:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T09:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2013-11-19T23:17:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T23:17:37","slug":"inverkip-power-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/power-stations\/inverkip-power-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Inverkip Power Station"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inverkip power station, built in 1970, is a classic white elephant – by the time of the 1973 oil crisis, the idea of an oil-fired power station was looking slightly daft, and the station only briefly reached it’s full 1900MW capacity during the miner’s strikes of 1984\/85. The station was mothballed in 1988.<\/p>\n

Oddly, the power station itself and the woods around it are still classed as greenbelt, however there are plans to demolish the power station in 2009, to replace it with housing.<\/p>\n

After a brief look about outside in the rain…<\/p>\n

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…I headed inside to dry off and explore. This is one of three main boilers:<\/p>\n

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Lots of big tanks, and steam pipes run everywhere.<\/p>\n

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I climbed up higher – note the small Scottish Power van:<\/p>\n

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A bunch of chart recorders:<\/p>\n

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Onto the roof of the main building, to look up at the enormous chimney.<\/p>\n

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Back inside and even higher.<\/p>\n

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A pressure vessel of some kind:<\/p>\n

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And some very elderly litter:<\/p>\n

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A panorama of the entire level:<\/p>\n

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All the way down to the floor of the turbine hall:<\/p>\n

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Lots of neatly-labeled storage vessels:<\/p>\n

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A panorama of one huge turbine and generator, with giant overhead cranes:<\/p>\n

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One of the absolutely enormous fans:<\/p>\n

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And I didn’t go past this sign…<\/p>\n

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Go to the next installment…<\/a><\/p>\n

All images:<\/p>\n

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