Railway Cement Works, Kiln and Control Room, May 2018.

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Barrington Cement Works, Kiln and Control Room, May 2018.

Intro
This is not the first time I have visited this site. I have documented the site on here before ( https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/industrial-sites/36045-disused-railway-cement.html ) and YouTube (Video at end of report). The difference this time is that I was joined by my brother and decided to brave climbing the massive cement kiln to find the generator room behind it.

Explore
On previous visits I have been a bit too cautious. This time decided to to almost forget about security and risk it. On arrival we ran under the beast that is the kiln and worked out to how to climb it
A week later I revisited with ExplorerX. The video I recorded reveals more of the site and the general explore.

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It may have been an understatement to say it was "Big".

Eventually we found a partially demolished walkway and began to climb.
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Once we had climbed behind I was greeted with something amazing.
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The Control Room.
It was untouched, apart from the smashed window, Files and TVs had been left and had not moved.
Personally I have never stood in a control room like this and it just amazed me.

Once we exited the control room things got better.
The back of the Kiln looked like a industrial MRI scanner.
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Turning around we were then greeted with the Coal Fired Generator Room.
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We decided to, yet again, ascend the stairs to the walkways above.
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By now I was overheating and running out of water so it was pleasant to get a look outside.
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As I looked down I saw what is the most humorous security attempt in 2018.
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Needless to say it was ambitious.

On exiting we got a view of the huge chimney. I did not enter as I have already seen what is within.
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The next building was an open hanger which would have stored the finished cement.
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Around the corner was a claw which was massive, much bigger in person than in the photo.
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Exiting the building we had noticed that a consist of open box wagons had been stored on the unloading pad.
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We decided to leave. It was almost 20:00 and was beginning to rain.

Conclusion

Soon the cement plant will be demolished and housing will be built upon it. A large portion of residents near Barrington and Foxton are against this action as the site is part of the local history as this is one of the reasons the towns and villages grew. The railway will become abandoned soon once DB Cargo finish moving spoil from Crossrail. Until then time will take its toll on the site and with some graffiti being spotted on the old supports for the kiln it may be trashed in no time.

Thanks for looking.


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If this is where I think I was there last week but didnt even attempt it, there was security cars everywhere & it looked like redevelopment is imminent.
Thats a superb report I would still love a look if u are heading back anytime ;-)
 
If this is where I think I was there last week but didnt even attempt it, there was security cars everywhere & it looked like redevelopment is imminent.
Thats a superb report I would still love a look if u are heading back anytime ;-)

There are about 2 cars you can see from the gate. One of them, a pick up truck, has not moved in a good few months. Although they still drive around in a van every so often it's well worth a visit.
 
There are about 2 cars you can see from the gate. One of them, a pick up truck, has not moved in a good few months. Although they still drive around in a van every so often it's well worth a visit.

Yeah see the pick up but the gates were open & there was people milling about near the "scarecrow" Im not a million miles away so if u need company for a revisit I would be honoured to come along!
 
Yeah see the pick up but the gates were open & there was people milling about near the "scarecrow" Im not a million miles away so if u need company for a revisit I would be honoured to come along!

I will consider it. All I'm yet to explore on this site is the Laboratory and Offices.
 
Instead of posting an other report on the site I'll add this as an extension.

a few days later we revisited and found our way into the lorry maintenance sheds and another area with what appeared to be a cement dryer
Here are the photos.

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