Goodbye Inverkip power station

[Alfie168]

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

 

[Giblets]

The chimney is due to be blown up at 22:00 today.

 

[PeteCooper]

I'm planning to be in the bay watching it - hope it misses me

 

[scottie]

I'm planning to be in the bay watching it - hope it misses me

Unfortunately it's dead low water and we could have difficulty getting out plus it was dark at 10:00 last night and the forcast is iffy fo tonight

 

[jimmcgee]

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

 

[TimBennet]

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.

 

[Rigger]

Methinks it will make a big splash!!

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[Alfie168]

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

 

[sarabande]

a missed commercial opportunity ?

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

??

 

[Jcorstorphine]

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.

 

[jimmcgee]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23485842#

 

[jimmcgee]

plenty of boats in the water

 

[ProMariner]

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.

 

[Deleted member 36384]

Recent pictures from around and inside the power station; old technology, state of the art in its day http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23330157Pictures

I am happy to see it go, it was a big blob on the landscape.

 

[agurney]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23485842#

With all those flashes going off I suspect quite a few folk on the spectator boats will be disappointed with their photos.

 

[penfold]

How dare they! I'll have to rewrite my location now.

 

[Seajet]

a missed commercial opportunity ?

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

??

They could have fitted a giant hand, mid finger extended, to be hoisted whenever a Spanish trawler went past - sigh...