Goodbye Inverkip power station

Alfie168

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The tower is going 'bang' today...probably already gone... Its a long long time since I've sailed up there, but the chimney was the navigation reference to beat all navigation marks. Farewell tall chimney!!

Tim
 
we need you's all in the wee carpark across from the garden centre , all the cars lined up with there full beams on pointed at the chimney

:D:D
 
Amazing to think it was only ever used for a couple of months in all its 45 years life (during the miner's strike).

The oil crisis in the seventies changed its viability just as it opened.

I hope the computers and control gear have been preserved somewhere as it was a little time capsule of 1970s technology.
 
Methinks it will make a big splash!!

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Amazing to think it was only ever used for a couple of months in all its 45 years life (during the miner's strike).

The oil crisis in the seventies changed its viability just as it opened.

I hope the computers and control gear have been preserved somewhere as it was a little time capsule of 1970s technology.

I had no idea it had so little use. Wow, what a white elephant (with a big trunk)

I did know that oil powered station were only used as generators of last resort though.

Tim
 
a missed commercial opportunity ?

Revolving restaurant
Communications tower
Met Radar
Stack effect wind turbine
Pigeon loft
Advertising hoarding

??
 
Coming out of the Kyles on a compass course this morning about 10ish and heading towards Largs, the only landmark I could make out in the mist and the rain was Inverkip chimney on my port side. Always a comfort to know that you are heading roughly in the right direction :)  Sadly, this aid to navigation will be gone forever come 10 PM.
 
Lovely evening on the water, seemed to be a couple of hundred boats out, conditions were kind.
The bang seemed to go as planned, very impressive, like a rocket launch in reverse. Fred Dibner would have been so excited.
 
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