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Posted: 27 Dec 2024

Taken: 16 Dec 2024

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Studying the station layout whilst waiting for our train back to Newcastle.

The station is actually a newly built bay platform, with the double tracks of the Blyth & Tyne heading off under the road bridge towards Lynmouth Power Station [now running on biomass, not coal]

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 StoneRoad2013
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Lynmouth Power Station was originally designed to burn coal to generate DC power for the Alcan Smelter located only a short distance away. Alcan shut the smelter on 2012 citing energy / environmental compliance costs. The power station was shut in 2015 and by 2027 had been converted to burn biomass [imported wood pellets], in 2024 some 27 trains a week deliver the pellets in a similar fashion to the coal "merry-go-round" system.
16 months ago.

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