I agree. This is where you need Geoff Marshall or Tom Scott. We saw lots of bits of hardware, but where were the pumps? How did they get their energy? If the pumping station was built in the 1800s, was it originally steam? How Network Rail disappoints, every time
Interesting video. We used to send apprentices there for high voltage experience when I worked for a while for the training department of Western Region in the Eighties. Slightly odd including footage of a Thameslink Class 700 in a video about western end of GWR. 🤔
Some is used by the brewery in Magor and some was used by a paper mill (but not any more). Most is just discharged into the Severn. You can see the discharge outlet on satellite views, to the east of the pumping house.
I really think that these videos are interesting as an engineer but they fall short on detail. We can see and understand that the tunnel needs to be kept dry but at no time are we told how much water is pumped out per hour per day etc. and compare it to say a swimming pool. That compariosn would show the public the scale of the feat they have to undertake daily and make it more understandable maybe.
Shame this wasn’t much longer and more detailed
I agree. This is where you need Geoff Marshall or Tom Scott. We saw lots of bits of hardware, but where were the pumps? How did they get their energy? If the pumping station was built in the 1800s, was it originally steam?
How Network Rail disappoints, every time
What an enthusiastic guide.
That was a fascinating video, the fact the pumps have a life of thirty years says something for their engineering
Interesting video. We used to send apprentices there for high voltage experience when I worked for a while for the training department of Western Region in the Eighties.
Slightly odd including footage of a Thameslink Class 700 in a video about western end of GWR. 🤔
QUESTION: Since freshwater, is the output used to supply waterworks as another useful source of drinking and irrigation water?
Some is used by the brewery in Magor and some was used by a paper mill (but not any more). Most is just discharged into the Severn. You can see the discharge outlet on satellite views, to the east of the pumping house.
You should make Kathy your number one video presenter.
She is very good at presenting and explaining!
That’s right next to or close to the M4 Second Severn Crossing near Chepstow in Wales. Fascinating stuff Network Rail.
I really think that these videos are interesting as an engineer but they fall short on detail. We can see and understand that the tunnel needs to be kept dry but at no time are we told how much water is pumped out per hour per day etc. and compare it to say a swimming pool. That compariosn would show the public the scale of the feat they have to undertake daily and make it more understandable maybe.
Spring water alone is on average 600 l/s
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Thank you for sharing.
Has the source of the water ever been discovered?