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Originally Posted by Paul
Ratcliffe-on Soar Power Station will finally close at the end of September.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c886qd2g80xo
Its cooling towers have been a feature around here for as long as I can remember (Built in the mid 1960's).
I once stood inside one of the towers in the early 1970's.
My Dad worked for the C.E.G.B (as a Shift Control Engineer) and gave me a tour of the station, including the control room, and inside one of the towers (the tower was undergoing maintenance at the time, so you could safely venture inside it).
I actually got to visit about 4 power stations in the East Midlands, plus the Nottingham Grid Control Centre (located in Clifton). The control centre was where I first learned computer programming (in Fortran) on their mainframe. I wrote some reports they used for a number of years. |
My father worked for Parsons and commisioned the generators for this power station all those years ago.