tarboat's photos

Roosecote Power Station was a gas-fired and former coal-fired power station, in Barrow-in-Furness. The gas-fired station opened in 1991 and was the first CCGT power station to supply electricity to the United Kingdom's National Grid. It was mothballed in 2012 after a proposed biomass power station was cancelled and subsequently demolished in 2014-15. It was a Combined cycle gas turbine power station, fueled by gas from Centrica's Morecambe Bay field which is landed at nearby Westfield Point (left background). The station generated electricity using one 165 MWe Alstom GT13E gas turbine, its associated alternator having a terminal voltage of 15.75 kV, rated at 210MVA, from which the exhaust gases at 520C pass through one CMI heat recovery steam generator. Steam from this powers one 63MWe steam turbine, with its alternator having a terminal voltage of 12.5 kV. The station had a thermal efficiency of 49%. The electricity generated entered the National Grid, via a transformer, at 132 kV, where it powers part of the United Utilities (former NORWEB) network. By March 2012 it was reconfigured to allow operation in the Short Term Operating Reserve market. The plant employed 33 people.

Virgin Pendelino departing Stockport for London.

Terracotta detail on the former New Swindon Co-operative Society premises on Bridge Street, Swindon.

This corrugated iron goods store stands beside the road to Ipstones just a short distance from the site of Ipstones Station on the Leek, Caldon and Waterhouses branch.

Former premises of the New Swindon Co-operative Society in Fleet Street, Swindon. The cream terracotta was a popular choice at one time for the fascia of Co-operative shops across the country.

The Great Western Railway lives on in this manhole cover on Milton Road, Swindon.

Viterra owned grain silos at Port Pirie on the Spencer Gulf in South Australia. The maximum loading capacity under the spouts is 800 tonnes per hour.

Beyer Peacock 4-8-2 W934 with its train for Quorn is dwarfed by the surroundings and background of Port Augusta power station and the head of the Spencer Gulf.

The duty platform staff member watches a Cleethorpes train departing Stockport. I was filling in time after missing my connection due to the late running of my train from Cardiff.

Beyer Peacock 4-8-2 W934 heads the morning service from Port August on the road crossing below Woolshed Flat on the Pichi Richi Railway. The line is well suited to car chasing for most of the way to Quorn although a lot of the locals seemed to want to stand right next to the track photographing rivets and buffers! This meant that I had to move my position for this shot due to people appearing and standing close to the line.

This former Technical School on Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness was built 1900-1903 for Barrow Corporation to the design of Woodhouse and Willoughby. The building contractor was W Gradwell and Co. It is listed Grade II.

The Whyalla Steelworks operated by OneSteel is a fully integrated steelworks and the only manufacturer of rail in Australia. It processes iron ore from the Middleback Range. Approximately 1.2 million tonnes of raw steel is produced in the steelworks each year, with about 65% of that transferred by rail to OneSteel's Market Mills as billets for further processing. The balance of the steel is then converted to finished products in the Whyalla Rolling Mill.

A fine mosaic at the former Technical School on Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness which was built 1900-1903 for Barrow Corporation to the design of Woodhouse and Willoughby.

This small roadside draw kiln at Hartlington near Appletreewick is in good condition after some restoration work.

The second surviving electric face shovel in the Iron Knob area is in the distance on top of the spoil tip at Iron Monarch mine. Arrium Mining was at this time planning to reopen the mines in this area and in December 2013 the first production began at Iron Knob. The company has stated that the project would include mining operations in the Iron Monarch, Iron Princess East and Iron Princess West pits, as well as the construction of crushing and screening operations and the reinstatement of the rail line.

H.S. Greenwood & Sons Ltd was established in 1948 and operated for many years from this building, Magnetic Works, Princess Street, Rochdale. They manufactured a wide range of permanent magnetic separators for the extraction of ferrous metal contamination. The company continues in business on another site as Greenwood Magnetics Limited.

This is one of two electric face shovels seen at Iron Knob and surrounding area. It is a product of the Marion Power Shovel Company, Ohio, and may have worked at the Iron Baron ore mine. Earlier models shovels were first introduced at these mines in 1928 and at one time there were three or four Bucyrus-Erie 120B electric shovels in operation. The other survivor is on top of the spoil tip at Iron Monarch mine. The information panel for this excavator states: "No. 7 Marion all electric shovel commissioned June 1965, cost $38,000. Taken out of service 14 October 1981 after digging more than 24 million tons. Carried own cable of 3300 V. With bucket of 18 tons cap."

The Weizigou coal mine and washery near Nanpiao, Liaoning Province, China.