tarboat's photos with the keyword: fuel

A peek into the Bramhall fuel distribution depot. This site was at one time rail served but is now supplied direct by pipeline from Stanlow refinery. Lorries work from here supplying filling stations over south Manchester and north-east Cheshire.

A panorama of the Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Cumbria. The site currently directly employs about 10,000 people, and is owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) which is a non-departmental public body of the UK government. Following a period 2008-2016 of management by a private consortium, the site has been returned to direct government control by making the Site Management Company, Sellafield Ltd, a subsidiary of the NDA. The site is due to be fully decommissioned by 2120 at a cost of £121bn.

The wartime oil pipeline between Stanlow and Immingham ran through Poynton in Cheshire where there was a pumping station to boost the flow. At some point after the war the pipeline was realigned in this area and the pumping station abandoned. Remarkably the buildings have survived, this one containing a small office at the front and the blast wall protected space for the oil engines and pumps at the rear.

The fuels storage capacity at Wick Harbour seems somewhat excessive to supply this fishing vessel. I suspect the fleet was actually out working.

Meat and bone meal forms a significant portion of the fuel used in the kiln and preheater at Clitheroe cement works. Clearly sensible precautions need to be taken when in contact with this material.

I recently found time to take a stroll over to the Bramhall fuel distribution depot, but it proved to have few photographic opportunities from behind the security fence. I did manage a chat with one of the lorry drivers and was aggressively questioned by a woman in a car that was leaving the premises. She didn't seem able to comprehend that someone might just want to photograph the place out of interest.

I spotted this whilst driving past and returned for a closer look. It appears to be a fuel pipeline pumping station dating back to WW2. The surviving building is very similar to that at Poynton (see below) although in this case the rainheads are rather fancy.

A long lens view of the Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Cumbria. According to Wikipedia: Sellafield houses "the most hazardous industrial building in western Europe" (building B30) and the second-most (building B38), which hold a variety of leftovers from the first Magnox plants in ageing ponds.