I know it's been done a few times but i've wanted to go for over a year and never had the chance. So with a few days spare off work and fuel in the car me and Grea set off to find it.
So throwing caution to the wind i parked in the most obvious spot then looked for a way in. Weather was a bit crap to start with but it did brighten up towards mid afternoon. We did see a few people walking around but nobody bothered us.
First sight to greet us was the digger:
Moving onward and upwards it was hard to ignore the opportunity for a reflection shot:
An old pump control station, all the wires had been burned down to extract the valuable copper and aluminium:
Approaching the first tower, you realise how immense these things are:
The now infamous warning sign about 30ft up:
One tower remains with all the cooling gubbins still intact, not entirely sure why but it does give you an idea of what it must've been like working on the main platform:
Once the novelty of 'echo games' had worn off we moved further up towards the centre towers:
I'd have loved to have had a nosey in here, the staircase looks a bit sketchy but there is an 'apperatus' for climbing up, if you weigh less than a small rhino:
Rusty Pipeage:
The Walkway:
Moving outward to a large expanse of land, noticing there were loads of holes and gaps in the rubble exposing a lower basement level to the building that once stood there. Old rusty parts of machines, cylindrical drums and driveshaft type things litter the area:...
...Last Man Standing:
Moved over to the trainline where coal would've been offloaded into the huge underground basement area, access via the stairs is still flooded beyond the second flight. I'm glad to be honest, i felt a bit funny just looking down them:
Trio:
Quads:
A quick look back heading back to the car as the afternoon got warmer:
...and a play with the digger:
And that was that, onward for a very late stew & dumplings in a nearby village. Well worth a visit if you've never done a power station, videos on youtube show the intact tower being scaled, but i'm too fat and old to be doing any climbing.
So throwing caution to the wind i parked in the most obvious spot then looked for a way in. Weather was a bit crap to start with but it did brighten up towards mid afternoon. We did see a few people walking around but nobody bothered us.
First sight to greet us was the digger:
Moving onward and upwards it was hard to ignore the opportunity for a reflection shot:
An old pump control station, all the wires had been burned down to extract the valuable copper and aluminium:
Approaching the first tower, you realise how immense these things are:
The now infamous warning sign about 30ft up:
One tower remains with all the cooling gubbins still intact, not entirely sure why but it does give you an idea of what it must've been like working on the main platform:
Once the novelty of 'echo games' had worn off we moved further up towards the centre towers:
I'd have loved to have had a nosey in here, the staircase looks a bit sketchy but there is an 'apperatus' for climbing up, if you weigh less than a small rhino:
Rusty Pipeage:
The Walkway:
Moving outward to a large expanse of land, noticing there were loads of holes and gaps in the rubble exposing a lower basement level to the building that once stood there. Old rusty parts of machines, cylindrical drums and driveshaft type things litter the area:...
...Last Man Standing:
Moved over to the trainline where coal would've been offloaded into the huge underground basement area, access via the stairs is still flooded beyond the second flight. I'm glad to be honest, i felt a bit funny just looking down them:
Trio:
Quads:
A quick look back heading back to the car as the afternoon got warmer:
...and a play with the digger:
And that was that, onward for a very late stew & dumplings in a nearby village. Well worth a visit if you've never done a power station, videos on youtube show the intact tower being scaled, but i'm too fat and old to be doing any climbing.
