station

CHEERS FOR LOOKIN IN :thumb :beer:

A few months back I went on a roadtrip to France and Belgium, this was one of the highlights. Probably the best power station going in Belgium at the moment, certainly the best piece of industry I have ever done surpassing even Pyestock. Sadly owing to us being knackered we somehow missed the...

Been sitting on this one for a while :( Barking Power Station - Opened in 1925 and decommissioned by the end of the 1980s

Explored with Skeleton Key, Klempner69, Tommo, UrbanX and Waddy Ongar station was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway on 24 April 1865, serving principally as a goods station taking agricultural produce from the nearby farms into central London. On 29 September 1949, London Underground...

Ok here goes for my first post, Be gentle :D On my first ever Urbex experience about a month ago me and 2 seasoned urbexers made a day of visiting some locations around Kent and this one was our 2nd location of the day. We arrived at the main gate, we tried to call the gatekeeper as past...

Richborough Power Station was built in the late 50's and from 1962 - 1971 Richborough burned over 3 million tonnes of coal, most of which came from the nearby kent coalfields. Then in 1971 the station was converted to run on oil, but usage of the site became costly as the price of oil prices...

visited with wevsky ,obscurity and teebs :) a little history... Richborough Power Station is a former power station close to the mouth of the River Stour near Sandwich, on the east coast of Kent. The power station can be seen in several scenes of the 2008 film Son of Rambow, and was the...

1st trip 2008. 3 year later I return and here are some pictures. 1st some History, The New York Central Railroad was forced to electrify its lines into Manhattan as a result of a horrific wreck in the Park Avenue Tunnel in 1902 caused by smoke from steam locomotives. The present Grand Central...

T'was a reet nice day out starting with Papplewick Pumping Station which is a reet nice Victorian water pumping station the Engine House holds the original Twin beam Engines which are independent of each other one for pumping the water up from the 200 foot deep well and the other to pump this...

I finally decided to have a solo visit to Richborough Power Station, after years of passing it in the car! This really is a nice relaxed explore, I had no problem with security. Part of this site is in use - it receives the power from the Thanet offshore wind farm. Below is the history quoted...

Went on a little road trip to Northampton today with Skeleton Key and Tstranger1066, on the way up the motorway we picked up Msaunder1972. After an Laurel and Hardy trip (which involved me going the wrong way around the roundabout on which the Nottingham Lift Tower lives) we arrived. Second...

Well with nothing better to do one afternoon. I decided to investigate the cellar of this undisclosed station. Undisclosed why? Well I had to get permission to crack open the doors that lead to the cellar. The station in question is still very much operational I had a member of station staff...

After seeing Superwide's previous post viewtopic.php?f=14&t=736&p=5918&hilit=Folkestone+Harbour#p5862 and talking to a couple of work mates who actually worked there and wanted to do a bit of a history of stations display at work. I decided to go and explore it for myself. So with...

Myself and my friend D60 decided to go and have another look at Folkestone harbour, at least this time I had someone with a decent camera in tow. A little about the station: A branch line was built in 1844 leaving the main line at Folkestone Junction and was double tracked ending with a...

Myself, Hood_mad and our dear old mum (yeah, really, she's 61) attempted to visit the St Twynells ROTOR station. St Twynnell's Rotor was one of a network of modern radar defenses conceived in the early 1950's as a response to the increased threat posed by soviet bomber forces. The Target...

Location: Rochester Police Station Date Visited: March 2008 Present Status: Derelict and Decaying Future Plans: Not certain, but probably demolition and housing Rochester police statiion was origenally built sometime in the 50's judging by it's style, and is surprisingly small inside for a...

This was on the way back from the garden centre, I persuaded my mate to stop by and after climbing through brambles, mud etc we were in, these are fantastic up close, enjoy the pics. This was taken from the car on the way there. Finally they came into view after a muddy and long walk. Up...