Tag : Machinery

Chatterley Whitfield Colliery and Mining Museum, Staffordshire

Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Staffordshire

Chatterley Whitfield is a disused colliery near Stoke on Trent which was later used a mining museum. The museum closed in 1993.

Decaying Italian Power Plant, Italy

A Decayed Power Plant, Italy

An old decaying power plant in Italy with an array of different turbines. An old, long-disused control room remains to one side.

Tarquinia Hydro Power Plant Italy

Tarquinia Centrale Idroelettrica, Italy

A small hydroelectric power plant in Italy that has been abandoned for some time. Two decayed turbines remain inside.

Diesel Centrale, Austria

Diesel Centrale, Austria

A well preserved power station in Austria, housing four vintage diesel-powered generating engines.

HF4 Coal Injection Plant, Charleroi, Belgium

HF4 Coal Injection Plant, Charleroi, Belgium

The Pulverised Coal Injection Plant was added to the Cockerill-Sambre steel works in Charleroi in the early 1990s. The site became Carsid and was closed in 2008.

Duferco Steel Works, La Louvière, Belgium

Duferco Steel Works, La Louvière, Belgium

The Duferco steel works at Usine Gustave Boël made long steel products until production ceased in 2013. The NLMK areas of the plant are still in use.

Cockerill Sambre HF4 Power Plant

HF4 Vintage Power Plant, Cockerill Sambre Steelworks, Charleroi, Belgium

The original power plant at Cockerill Sambre’s HF4 Blast Furnace in Charleroi, Belgium contained two turbines, with an additional three turbines in the extension building.

Coalbrookdale Foundry, Ironbridge, Shropshire

Coalbrookdale Foundry – Aga Rayburn, Ironbridge, Shropshire

The Coalbrookdale Foundry mass-ironmaking was developed, leading to the Industrial Revolution. More recently, casting for Aga cookers were made there.

Ford Genk Powerhouse

Powerhouse / Compressor Hall at Ford Assembly Plant, Genk, Belgium

The powerhouse at the Ford assembly plant in Genk, Belgium was later used as a compressor hall. The boilers and control room were still utilised until closure in 2014.

NGTE Pyestock Anechoic Facility, Fleet, Hampshire

NGTE Pyestock Anechoic Facility, Fleet, Hampshire

An acoustically lined, echo-free chamber that was used for noise testing of jet engines.