The Underground Remains of Thorpe Marsh Power Station
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2024
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Thorpe Marsh Power Station & the Disused Railway
Thorpe Marsh Pwer Station was once a 1GW Electricty Generating Site that was comissioned in 1963 but closing just 31 years later after quite a short life.
Long demolished, we begin by looking at the former pumping station that was used to extract and filter water from the River Don to be used as part of the cooling process at the Power Station.
We look around the surface and even get inside one of the inspection rooms.
Next we return to the site of the Power Station to have a look inside a room, accessed down via a doorway and concrete stairwell. What was its purpose?
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Be very careful Ant,because of Asbestos,I was glad when you came out.😊x
Another great video ant very interesting story👍👍
The big wheel is a drum intake screen. It would rotate in water being drawn in from the river, and remove (or "screen") debris out of the water. They were standard in all CEGB power stations. Have a Google and you'll find some examples from other plants 👍
This one looks identical to the one you can see on the Trent beside the old High Marnham site. I thought it was related to extraction of water and checking it for muck. Thanks for watching
I worked on this power station in 1992 steel lagging. Loved working there it was a great experience.
Another good watch Ant. Keep up the good work mate, lots of us love watching your videos
Very interesting part 2 Ant! Amazing the abandoned areas you can investigate showing us what very few people have seen excellent video ❤😊
Good to see you out and about with pals, Ant. 🤓
Some places are better in numbers 🙂
Hi Ant, I found that mini-series extremely interesting. Thanks again for all your hard work.
It’s called a band screen. It’s used to filter the water being sucked in. It would rotate into the water and when out of the water a jet of water would fire at the screens to clean off any debris and that would channel away somewhere.
great work Ant,thanks lad
Makes you wonder if it just went down one level or two. I just love your enthusiasm Ant, thanks for sharing.
Absolutely fascinating, both videos went by in no time. Its such an interesting place.
Thanks glad you enjoyed them 😊
at 17:02 we see 3phase electric motor 7 1/2 horse power made by the Brook company Huddersfield about 1960 . connected to worm & wheel gearbox may be made by Holroyd
Hi Ant, That gauze covering is basically pipe insulation (may contain asbestos) so be careful. Don’t touch stuff like that inside as you might inhale the stuff. Outside it’s not so much of a problem. Edwards comments about that wheel being an intake screen is correct. I’ve worked in oil and gas and power generation for 30 yrs. I know you are very careful but there is an awful lot of toxic stuff in these abandon places not to mention deep pits etc, so if you don’t know what you are doing it’s advisable to stay out.
It's amazing how fast things fall apart and nature takes over when daily, weekly and monthly maintenance stops after the abandonment. Thanks to Ant for another great watch.
Cheers Mike much appreciated as always 💓
It would be really cool if you would make a video about some abandon railway tracks in Berlin
Thanks for the tour today, Ant. I’m glad nobody was injured today at this site. Very dangerous. See you on the next video. Cheers Ant! 😊
Thanks for watching as always
At 13:40 - I reckon you could have a side-line writing 'Cary On' scripts.
Let me just risk standing over here, and you can see how long Richard's thing is, without blinding him. That's impressive!
Ha ha ha ha that made me smile :)
Thanks for another cool video Ant! I need to start having a wander around and visit some of the places you've filmed! They're all on my doorstep. 😊
I hope you do I'll be interested to see where you get to 🙂
Crazy to see all these different "things" still around when everyone and everything are. Amazing finds underground too. Very enjoyable as always. Great stuff.
Cheers Tim very much appreciate
Frightening.
Very unnerving indeed.
You 3 are very brave going in there.
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It's a confined space and they needed the right safety equipment plus a confined spaces team. Non of which they had. This safety breach needs to be reported to ABLE UK who are managing and decommissioning the site. The demolition needs to be completed and this space properly filled in.
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Thanks very much for your kind words
Love this Ant. It's like something out of a horror movie seeing those underground shelters etc. Top stuff as always Ant. Keep safe 👍🏻
those arent shelters they are access points to the varoius areas of the site
@@jasinere35 thanks Jason. I was trying to find the right word for them. Suppose you could say discharge area as its where the coal went from the MGR hoppers
Great stuff Ant! Love the follow up on the power station! That gantry at the pump house was brilliant. And the wheels!
I was curious if there was going to be a part two after the end of the last video, good to see there is one.
Thanks very much I hope you enjoy it
The mill wheel in the it was fascinating. Whether it was an impeller to draw water in or some form of power generation system from the drawn in water. Who knows? 🤔
Yes I was surprised just how big and deep this is and it appears there are three side by side
My uncle bought a farm 3 mile away in 2000 no wonder 4 out of the 18 acres was under water 2007
The underground bunker was where coal was discharged from under hopper wagons. The arriving train ran slowly over here and hatches were mechanically opened and coal dropped between the rails into the bunker. The trains never stopped to discharge that's why they were known as merry go rounds. They would normally follow a circular route around the power station site.
thorpe marsh didnt have the spacce for a circular line the loco pulled the hoppers thru then swapped ends & hauled them back out on the same siding
Very interesting. Deep water. Good job you had bright lights showing the way. Most enjoyable and well explained. Thank you.
Thanks very much Shirley. It was extraordinarily deep too
Good one Ant. Whe you do your exploring do you ever ger contact from people who may have worked there and might be able to provide further information about the purpose of the infrastructure?
The underground bit that Richard put the tube into is a collection hopper with a convey belt at the very bottom, the trains discharged the coal between the rails where its been filled in rather than collapsed as you say it. The way the system worked with the train was with a 3rd rail in the building that was above ground level which released the hatches on the bottom of the train wagons. On leaving the building the hatches would shut automatically. The class 56s and many other locos had a craw mode which slowly pulled or pushed the run of wagons through at just the right speed for the conveyor to keep on top of the coal being discharged from the train.
Useful information thank you. Once I'd got up top above what looked collapsed I could see it was an open concrete section. I'm glad I worked it out what these rooms were for as others said previously they're shelters but I was never convinced. Thanks for watching
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wow , that water wheel was huge , we need to know more about it , their must be a good story . and then the bunker , that had to be the dump and the flooded level must have a conveyer belt , you were lucky to get in .
Yes the hole and rooms below ground were where the coal was deposited and dropped. Thanks very much for watching
10:49 this is an access stairwell to the lower conveyer system from bunker to stock pile sadly this is how it looks since this site floods pretty easily each time the eabeck overtops during heavy rain there use to be 3 access points that led to different areas of the coal bunker system but each one you ended up in a flooded room, the infill you see in this room is infact sat on top of more steel platesyou showed another stairwell that the contractor didnt infill i did & it can easily be opened up again the stairs of that other one leads to a room where it housed 3 conveyers one comes up from the bunker then it goes to 2 more that ran between the stocking yard & powerstation if you walk along the edge of the stocking yard there is another slightly hidden structure that is where the coal for the stocking yard emerged that too has an entrance that led to stairs which went straight to water within a room, tbh ant there is nothing left of the structure above ground but there is a hell of a lot left below ground its a shame its flooded though
This needs to be reported to ABLE Thorpe Marsh who are responsible for decommissioning this site.
Trespassers are entering confined spaces with deep water and potentially life threatening hazards. They didn't even have PPE, gas detection, or a confined spaces team.
The site needs to be cleaned up, demolished, and these chambers filled in with compacted material and topsoil over.
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Never knew this place was so close to me
It's worth a wander around if you are local
@@TrekkingExploration definitely. I've spotted another segment to the transpennine trail I can cycle looking at a map after watching part 1 too 👍
Great video. Just a friendly caution, I wouldn’t enter underground places without a gas/oxygen meter. All that rotting vegetation can emit gases and cause low oxygen conditions. Likewise with dropping things in the water, you could release gases unknowingly. I’ve worked in a lot of manholes in my career with the telephone company and without the meter you would never that there is an oxygen deficiency. Love the videos! Keep making them and I’ll keep watching! Cheers from Florida!
Be careful Ant - That 'Big Wheel' that you found looked very dodgy - Mind you - that would be something that I would do!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂
Nice place to get rid of a body 😱 Super creepy, I'm glad is was you down there and not me! 😅👍🏻
Nicely concluded Ant👍 As that pier was originally right out in the water I'm not surprised that lower room is flooded. I presume that's a big waterwheel behind those doors??
I enjoyed that, you're all braver than me, I'd be too scared of standing on sumat and having the floor collapse under me!
The electrical socket you saw on the wall is called a BS196 Reyrolle Connector.
I love that you know that. Thank you for watching 🙂
Steampunk Hydro Turbine.
Asbestos ☢️
I took a vid of the railway underground bunker before demolition, it was used to unload coal from the MGR wagons, link: ruclips.net/video/Ynd0BnbEr0g/видео.html
I'd love to know what the set was with some piping and instrument diagrams. Seems a fascinating piece of engineering. Came across this on You Tube showing "Thorpe Marsh" in operation: ruclips.net/video/ZYo13ERlI-A/видео.html.
Remarkable what they look like inside the main building
There are deep chambers there my father worked in compressed air chambers when they were building Thorpe marsh power station.hope you have reported the dangerous state to the appropriate authorities,danger to children.
It's a good mile along a dangerous road so I'd doubt many children are aware of it to be honest. I bet the underground sections go down a very long way
@@TrekkingExplorationI've been underground there on my own through the tunnels. The water can be 20 ft even deeper in places its very very dangerous. I was crawling through small gaps and over huge pipes. Some scarey stuff.
just begs the question why demolish and then leave this. great viewing though ant
I said exactly the same as we left yesterday it should be cleared up
@@TrekkingExploration the answer to that one is there were plans to build a gas fired powerstation on the site & the site was parcially cleared but sadly these fell thru so its been left like that ever since & the kids know about it but wont visit as there is nothing above ground to explore