Comments on: Thorpe Marsh Power Station – Yorkshire

By: graham wood

graham wood — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:46:02 +0000

i have noticed the peregrines still nesting at the door like thing at the top of nearest tower to the river don. last time i saw one flying around was just before xmas 2011. so as its only january 2012 not very long ago at all.
it does concern me that they are going to pull these towers down and we lose some of the most exciting wildlife in the area.

By: Alan Rostron

Alan Rostron — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:03:19 +0000

Has anybody got pictures of the turbine rotors. I turned these and would be interested to see them

By: jason adams

jason adams — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 01:34:58 +0000

bullcroft spoil tip is in the center of skellow i live yards away from it & when both were running there was a direct line from bulcroft to thorpe marsh, part of the line is used for a walkway but all steel bridges between adwick & thorpe marsh have since been removed & i have seen the work in progress on the carpark nearest the substation & it deffinately looks like the gas fired powerstation is going ahead cos all the carpark has been ripped up, as for the rest of the original powerstation they are planning for its removal, this may be done by dragging it down bit at a time but no one knows when this will take place

By: Joe Milnes

Joe Milnes — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:47:10 +0000

Frank,

You wouldn’t think that if you had ever been working in the sub basement. Ah, memories.

By: R Walker

R Walker — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:18:18 +0000

The bird making that sound inside the cooling tower was likely a peregrine falcon – a pair was nesting in one of the towers up to 2008 and successfully raised young….the bird was probably squawking at you to try and scare you away and protect it’s nest. Cracking photo’s by the way

By: Rob Daniels

Rob Daniels — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:26:35 +0000

Hello, Dave

I wondered if this would be of any interest. I’m trying to get this out to as many former employees as possible. Can you help?

All the best

Rob

By: Gary Lingard

Gary Lingard — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:53:40 +0000

Interested to know more about the oringal build and the area to the west of the current 275 substation. I am involved in extending the substation into this area for the potential new Power Station on the same site. The ground seems to be black ash to about 500 mm then red shale for 1 metre then clay. Where was Bullcroft tip?

By: frank morley

frank morley — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:51:30 +0000

All you blokes who worked at the station had it easy. Nobody ever thinks of the poor s–s who worked on that lousy, permanently waterlogged site. I seemed to spend half of my life trundling out to the site repairing the 14NTR concrete mixers or cajoling water pumps back into life after they had blocked up with the ash from which the site was constructed.
The ash/rubble came from Bullcroft tip and was brought to the site in tipper lorries. If you have seen the film ‘Hell Drivers’ you’ve seen it all.
It’s not surprising that I went to live in Australia after 3 years on ‘The Marsh’
Bobthesitefitter

By: Mark_Morecambe

Mark_Morecambe — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:10:21 +0000

Great work guys… ‘The Last Train’ was one of the gloomiest TV series i ever saw. apart from the (so much better) 70′s Terry Nation series ‘Survivors’. Love ‘em.
i dabbled a little with UE years ago…. this got me considering a few more explorations. love the Yoiutube bit too.. catch the one where someone is filming away when the damn thing is operating too.. very creepy. great. love to see one in operation, and pop my head through the door.. love to hear it too. always wanted to explore an old gasometer in Clitheroe years ago (it had windows in it!) but they pulled it. take care guys.. hope you find more sites.

By: luke

luke — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:44:00 +0000

climb nto the un gutted tower