Methil power station is no longer accepting visitors
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You'll have to get in there before the local neds paint a 10-foot cock and use the car park as a bike track
very true mate chav's and pikies really piss me off
Methil Power Station - April 24th
Just the great chimney & a pile of twisted metal remaining of the main power station now, plus the admin(?) block.
A great shame, I have always liked having the power station there, even though lots of folk hate it.
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Apologies for the poor photos, the light was rubbish & a white sky meant little vibrancy of colour, although it kinda suits the subject.
Note the new wind turbine in the background, sort of makes the pictures poignant, new clean energy triumphs over fossil fuel power!
Just the great chimney & a pile of twisted metal remaining of the main power station now, plus the admin(?) block.
A great shame, I have always liked having the power station there, even though lots of folk hate it.
Apologies for the poor photos, the light was rubbish & a white sky meant little vibrancy of colour, although it kinda suits the subject.
Note the new wind turbine in the background, sort of makes the pictures poignant, new clean energy triumphs over fossil fuel power!
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Thanks for posting these, I meant to have a look when I was in Leven yesterday but work dragged on a bit and I forgot. It wasn't an eyesore before but it certainly is now.
Btw- the Flickr code already has IMG tags, you can paste it straight into your post without using the "Insert Image" button here
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Just think this is a great example of how you can knock a coal power station down and build straight away. Contrast that to nuclear power check out this site http://www.nda.gov.uk/sites/bradwell/bradwellplans.cfm
The average decomisson 100 years...
The average decomisson 100 years...
I wonder how they've managed to end up with a twisted metal frame like that. Did they just knock out all the concrete cladding?
Any news on the chimney coming down? controlled implosion?
Thanks for the photo updates
Any news on the chimney coming down? controlled implosion?
Thanks for the photo updates
There was rumour the chimney was going to be left to continue to be a local landmark. The sole arguement for keeping it was really based on the fact people would miss having it there, so it may remain.
Wind turbines would be good there, as long as they don't have to keep switching them off
Wind turbines would be good there, as long as they don't have to keep switching them off
There was rumour the chimney was going to be left to continue to be a local landmark. The sole arguement for keeping it was really based on the fact people would miss having it there, so it may remain.
Wind turbines would be good there, as long as they don't have to keep switching them off
Thats outragious! so much for cheap energy, as usual a total joke.
Chimney deffo coming down,all they are saying is in the summer.
The mate who told me the station was coming down the night before it happened said 4 weeks.
His boss has units in Methi docksl and had to be told about the demo so hopefully will find out again about the chimney/
Theres a campaign in the local paper to get the contractor to tell everyone when its coming down so they can all see it.
They dont want to publicise it for health and safety reason,but the exclusion zone will be far greater than when the station came down.
Once they have moved all the metal away to chimney is to fall that way.
The mate who told me the station was coming down the night before it happened said 4 weeks.
His boss has units in Methi docksl and had to be told about the demo so hopefully will find out again about the chimney/
Theres a campaign in the local paper to get the contractor to tell everyone when its coming down so they can all see it.
They dont want to publicise it for health and safety reason,but the exclusion zone will be far greater than when the station came down.
Once they have moved all the metal away to chimney is to fall that way.
This article states 2:30pm
http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/loc...e_iron_is_hot_on_power_station_land_1_1643270
http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/loc...e_iron_is_hot_on_power_station_land_1_1643270
Wonder if they'll find my Noikia mobile I lost there last year!
of all the times we where here methil rail
Methil was an interesting power station in that it burnt coal slurry, I used to deliver it there by train in the 1990's, I was a locomotive driver at Thornton depot in Fife. We used to go to Aye on a night and collect the load. Also it was the last vacuum brake coal train in the whole of the UK until the wagons changed to air brake stock in '93, traction was predominatly class 37/5 though till '92 we sometimes used class 26. The power station had its own shunting engine.
thornton depot closed in 1994 and i transfered.
Methil was an interesting power station in that it burnt coal slurry, I used to deliver it there by train in the 1990's, I was a locomotive driver at Thornton depot in Fife. We used to go to Aye on a night and collect the load. Also it was the last vacuum brake coal train in the whole of the UK until the wagons changed to air brake stock in '93, traction was predominatly class 37/5 though till '92 we sometimes used class 26. The power station had its own shunting engine.
thornton depot closed in 1994 and i transfered.
