krela
Well-known member
Here's a vaguely interesting one for you, this site is an old aggregates quarry near Cheddar Gorge which was converted for use as a stress testing centre with equipment to drop containers from great heights down cliffs and onto various shaped objects to test their stress and breaking points.
The site itself is not really that interesting at all, being mostly overgrown and partly used by some other company. The interest comes in it's heritage as what they mostly tested was containers for transporting radioactive material. The preliminary stress tests for railway containers were done here before they were actively tested on the trains themselves. (I'm sure many of you have seen the simulated high speed train crashes with nuclear containers on board).
The site consists of a large office / substation (now abandoned), a number of gantries / cranes and some outbuildings (in use).
Would I recommend it for a visit? No, but I figured it might be worth a read.
Office Block:
Testing Equipment:
Observation Platform?
Equipment calibration manuals (pretty much all that was left in the office):
Nuclear Electric:
The site itself is not really that interesting at all, being mostly overgrown and partly used by some other company. The interest comes in it's heritage as what they mostly tested was containers for transporting radioactive material. The preliminary stress tests for railway containers were done here before they were actively tested on the trains themselves. (I'm sure many of you have seen the simulated high speed train crashes with nuclear containers on board).
The site consists of a large office / substation (now abandoned), a number of gantries / cranes and some outbuildings (in use).
Would I recommend it for a visit? No, but I figured it might be worth a read.
Office Block:
Testing Equipment:
Observation Platform?
Equipment calibration manuals (pretty much all that was left in the office):
Nuclear Electric:
