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Martino ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/martino_) and myselve made a weekend trip to Scotland to explore the Inverkip Power station:
Saturday morning. In a hotel to the Scottish coast our alarm clock wakes us at 5:30 AM. Sleepily and a bit broken we get dressed. After that we start on our trip. Our goal is the powerplant of the South of Scotland Electricity Board in Inverkip. We had made an appointment with 2 scottisch photgraphers, who will help us to get in
Arrived on the agreed spot we met them and after shaking hands we walk to the 'entrance'.
In the dark we walk about 10 minutes through bushes.
Stumbling and creeping we finally arrived at the fence.
Because security regular checks the fences on damages we had to search a while for a good hole where we can climb through.
Carefully we walk further towards the huge building. The last mile we have to run to avoid being seen on one of the security camera's.
Exhausted and full with adrenalin we arrive at the corner of the building.
We follow our guide, who is almost living in the plant. Afer several stairs we arrive at the entrance.
Carefully, because the security is nearby.
Because itis still dark we follow our guide through the building.
In the light of his flashlight we can see a bit of the huge building we have just entered.
After 5 minutes walking through a labyrinth of stairs and hallways we arrives in the heart of the powerplant: the control room.
Great! Welcome in the 1970's!
Because we only can get out unseen in the dark we have to wait until the evening. At first we thought it would be a very long day, but the day was gone before we knew it.
13 hours we walkes around and still we didn't see everything.
Around 17:30 we met again in the control-room and together we headed to our way out.
So down the stairs, to the entrance, more stairs, running to the fence, through the hole and out we are!
Tired but satisfied we said farewell to our scottish guides, without them we never succeeded it!
The SSEB Powerplant is a oil heathed plant, build in the 1970's.
When the construction was completed it was uneconomical due to the oil-crisis in 1973.
Due to that reason the plant never worked as planned and they decided to keep the plant standby for emergencies.
During the mineworker-strike of 1984/85 the plant was started to avoid Scotland of electricity because there was not enought coal.
In 1988 the plant was ceased and until now 'mothballed' to keep standby.
There are plans to start demolishing in 2009 to make place for houses and small companies.
Bart
www.urban-travel.org
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Saturday morning. In a hotel to the Scottish coast our alarm clock wakes us at 5:30 AM. Sleepily and a bit broken we get dressed. After that we start on our trip. Our goal is the powerplant of the South of Scotland Electricity Board in Inverkip. We had made an appointment with 2 scottisch photgraphers, who will help us to get in
Arrived on the agreed spot we met them and after shaking hands we walk to the 'entrance'.
In the dark we walk about 10 minutes through bushes.
Stumbling and creeping we finally arrived at the fence.
Because security regular checks the fences on damages we had to search a while for a good hole where we can climb through.
Carefully we walk further towards the huge building. The last mile we have to run to avoid being seen on one of the security camera's.
Exhausted and full with adrenalin we arrive at the corner of the building.
We follow our guide, who is almost living in the plant. Afer several stairs we arrive at the entrance.
Carefully, because the security is nearby.
Because itis still dark we follow our guide through the building.
In the light of his flashlight we can see a bit of the huge building we have just entered.
After 5 minutes walking through a labyrinth of stairs and hallways we arrives in the heart of the powerplant: the control room.
Great! Welcome in the 1970's!
Because we only can get out unseen in the dark we have to wait until the evening. At first we thought it would be a very long day, but the day was gone before we knew it.
13 hours we walkes around and still we didn't see everything.
Around 17:30 we met again in the control-room and together we headed to our way out.
So down the stairs, to the entrance, more stairs, running to the fence, through the hole and out we are!
Tired but satisfied we said farewell to our scottish guides, without them we never succeeded it!
The SSEB Powerplant is a oil heathed plant, build in the 1970's.
When the construction was completed it was uneconomical due to the oil-crisis in 1973.
Due to that reason the plant never worked as planned and they decided to keep the plant standby for emergencies.
During the mineworker-strike of 1984/85 the plant was started to avoid Scotland of electricity because there was not enought coal.
In 1988 the plant was ceased and until now 'mothballed' to keep standby.
There are plans to start demolishing in 2009 to make place for houses and small companies.
Bart
www.urban-travel.org
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