Exploring the Abandoned Eggborough Power Station - Before Demolition
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- In this video, we share footage from our 2019 infiltration of the defunct Eggborough Power Station which ceased operating in 2018. When we visited, the plant was complete with a 60s control room, turbine hall, boiler house, cooling towers and chimney all still standing, which unfortunately isn't the case anymore with most of it having been demolished in the last two years.
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Be sure to tune in tomorrow evening on the channel for a livestream we’ll be holding, just discussing and answering any questions about our Eggborough infiltration. See you there!
Why was Eggborough notorious?
Worked at Eggborough for nearly 40 years - a brilliant piece of work - urbex at its finest
You'll know one or two lads from Agecroft then👍🏼
Fantastic, what a place
Cheers fellas :)
You guys should do an explore together, 2 great channels, cheers. 👍👍
My favorite channel
I really like your video buddy keep up good work
I worked at West Burton between Retford and Gainsborough from early 70still 1990,and whilst this video gives you an insight into these giants you cannot appreciate the size the complexity of steelwork,wiring,waterpipes,steampipes and somebody actually designed it.What a lot people don't know is there's an awful lot of going on underground in the sub-basement.....very,very spooky when working up on the boilers at night when you could be up there on your own,your mind goes wild.
@@freespirit1975 We mainly had, in the UK large stations, General Electric Company (GEC) (not the US GEC!) and Parsons - the company of Charles Parsons.
The UK fleets was standardised over a number of ranges so rebuilds and swaps could occur, the down side was that they insisted that the UK nuclear power stations had to use the same turbines, with a higher boiler port temperature, which really was not good for nuclear stations operation.
The Parsons 660MW units were the first to break the million HP scale, which is more amazing considering that twenty years prior 50MW was considered large. Also, from memory, and others may correct me as I could well be wrong, I believe the 660's were the first to use electric vs mechanical (nearly Watts style) governors at that size.
What's more incredible is that they were hydrogen cooled stator cores and now that size can be air cooled!
PS I appreciate these were 500MW units. They were really quick to load however.
I say to people until you've stood on the HP end of a steam turbine on a winters evening peak, do you really have no idea of the energy in a power station: respect to the Unit Controllers!
I see that West Burton is getting a new lease of life as one of the UKs locations for a nuclear fusion power plant. All I can remember from West Burton was the Asbestos.
Good point about someone actually designing this! That's what I was thinking when watching this. Amazing
That looks like the place featured on the 1970s Album cover, PXR5 by Hawkwind🤔
And that folks, is what's at the other end of your light switch. Few even think about how complex making electricity actually is. We flip a switch, we plug something in, without ever thinking about how it got here. Thank you for documenting and preserving this station's history before it was gone.
Places like this, at minimum portions of which, should be preserved and turned into a museum for people like myself who are fascinated by the process.
Maintenance and repairs to the aging facilities costs too much.
One word “rust” . It is warfare to battle the elements.
Having worked around this kind of thing for the first ten years of my working career, nothing I have ever seen compares to this station! So large and pristine! Times do change and nothing stays the same. I'm so happy you guys caught it in time! Thank You so much.
Kind of ironic that we could now be doing with this PowerPlant on full flow to guarantee energy security. Great video!
The "greenies" think they want limited electricity; until they have to do without, that is! 🇺🇸 😎👍☕
It's all part of a bigger plan
Yup..used to work there, still running ok on the day it stopped mainly
Grew up surrounded by Eggborough, Ferrybridge, and Drax (still operating) power stations.
At night you felt like you were on the set of Blade Runner due to all of the glowing aircraft warning lights atop the various cooling towers, chimneys, pylons, and the clouds of steam illuminated by the moonlight.
Ever up this way in the future guys, be nice to see you take a look at the abandoned chemical works on the banks of the River Ouse near Goole.
Excellent! Beautiful control room. So glad you captured it before destruction. Someone should arrange permission to officially document and, where possible, 3D scan such wonderful places before they're all gone. We owe it to all of the people who worked to create such fantastic things and to those who will never be able to experience them to preserve them however we can. Better yet, people with vision and imagination should intervene and find creative ways to repurpose these amazing places.
Excellent post.
These engineering achievements should be preserved in the digital space, as in years to come they could prove very useful for training apprentice engineers, or for technicians who may need a refresher before attempting to repair an identical asset which is still functioning.
We have lost so much of our structural engineering past. It really is very sad as we once achieved such great things.
@@residentelect It's unfortunate that the people with the money and the bureaucrats in charge of things tend not to have the kind of vision needed to do anything other than just tear such things down.
@@StubbyPhillips When Didcot A (built in the same era as Eggborough) was closed in 2013, they dismantled a great deal of the control room and gave it to the Oxfordshire county archives. There was a plan to do something with it in the town, but I don't know what happened to it. I went around the plant quite a few times and it was amazing - engineering on an epic scale that we'll never see again.
I worked in there ,installing control gear for a new soot blower control panel , fitting instrumentation into the existing control panels was no easy fit , very heavy gauge steel to cut through, but very interesting at the time .
Well lads you have just documented history in a way that no others have. This was amazing and the filming was very good, you must have been freezing but you all did so well. Thank you for this, well done 💕🇦🇺
Yes I agree thankyou for documenting & your dedication been able to look back at this place means something and maybe others that worked there
You also support them trespassing by watching these video's. I have just done this and I want to ask why do you have to trespass? Why cant these guys go to the proper people (perhaps old managers or workers) with the proper liability insurance and proper Personal Protective Equipment (Steel toe boots, high vis) and make a real documentary.
I'm lucky that I'm old enough to live when you used to be able to go on tours around places like this when they were actually in service. When I was a younger, I stood on top of the reactor of Dungeness B while it was going and stood next to massive turbo alternator sets like those while they were all full load. The sheer noise was staggering and it was odd to see these so quiet!
Ditto. I've toured Willington coal power station and also Sellafield nuclear plant as a kid. I ended up designing places like this though so looking around them these days isn't so exciting!
Way back in the early 70s, my old man worked at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, another great example of 1960s CEGB design & build. I was lucky enough to get a guided tour around the turbine hall, control room, and inside the base of one of the cooling towers - this great video brought those memories back.
Same here, I took the Dungenss B tour pre-9/11 which closed them off. The power of the alternator sets at full speed was, as you say, awesome - the whole ground shook.
Words cant describe how this video has blown my mind! Yes the scale of it, and that epic control room plus the fact it was still fully intact as if they had just got up and left the day before and the shear complexity of the station, but most of all, the effort that you all put into getting the footage and editing what is a truly outstanding video. When I seen the state you were all in and the fact that you had been inside for 6 hours then that is true dedication to your craft. Thanks does not seem enough praise, but you do have my heartfelt thanks and admiration.
k bye
I worked on a shutdown at eggbourgh in the 1990 s
I’ve been inside the boilers and ducts
What a place to work
Absolute huge
You ever work at Drax?
No but a lot of the guys had
Former CEGB fitter here👍🏼
I can remember being taken on a visit to Eggborough Power Station by my father back in the mid sixties when it was being commissioned. He was a Consultant Engineer working for one of the contractors on the build. I have a memory of a control room and the turbines, for a 13 year old it was pretty impressive.
My father worked there for 20yrs and was a Shift Charge Engineer (Chief Ops Eng) and I also was there briefly. I'm still in the industry and miss the proper Power Stations. RIP Eggborough. Thank you for your service Old Lass.
What a stunning place, literally jaw dropping scenes. So intact, unvandalised, frozen in time.
Looks almost Soviet at times or is it the other way round? Tesla battery power stations probably would look the same if they can last 60 years!
there's something unique about the control panel's appearance. The vintage look kicks ass.
If it was not for this video how could you describe the sheer scale of the place to someone it would be so hard
Thanks for keeping a bit of British industrial history alive it all show how you have evolved in what you present and improved so a win win all around
I worked in this power station in the 70s as an apprentice. Great video thanks it brings back some memories....
you can't appreciate just how huge these places are until you step inside, even then unless you actually worked in these places it's impossible to comprehend the noise, heat & vibration produced when they were in operation.
I spent years as a scaffolder helping these places to run smoothly & for the last few years a safety manager for the demolition of this very station & also Ferrybridge. Some very mixed emotions watching these giants fall......
FANTASTIC job guys. Just discovered your channel. Please, no apogee necessary. A great piece of work. Thanks a million for all the hours of work, all the risk and time it takes to put something like this together. All my best from the US, Jim
I worked for 34 years in Generating Stations with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power that burned natural gas and fuel oil in the boilers. The common arrangement of Control Rooms was to have one control room for a pair of generating units. That is the the Generating Station had 4 units there would be 2 control rooms. This Old Generating Station had one really huge control room for all four units apparently with the controls of each unit in a corner of the huge room. This is the largest single control room I have ever seen in my life and on videos.
There was bigger.but not now
My grandfather was an electrical engineer there. I went round with him around 45 years ago when I was 8 or 9, I think. I remember some of the places, certainly the control room and turbine hall. It would never be allowed to bring a kid to an industrial complex now!
That was some time ago.......it's gone now
My grandfather worked there almost all his life, he retired in the early 80s my dad worked in building drax power station.
Wow lads you really captured a piece of history here. Just read that this has been completely demolished now - to think of all the planning, engineering and man hours that went into making the plant operational. It really is a marvel to see it. Shame part of it couldn't be kept as a museum. With the current energy crisis it wouldn't be a bad thing to have something like this available for use eh. Anyway great video chaps and thanks for sharing!
This was an epic experience, my wife’s grandad joe smith worked on here as an electrician for decades. This video was a really good watch
You got some nerve, but thanks for putting this up.
I love power stations and I would have loved to have gone around that one with you.
As an engineer, I can only marvel and appreciate what lies beneath those machinery covers. There was an amazing amount of machinery and equipment there.
Everyone should visit a power station in their lives, most people take electrical power generation for granted without a thought about how its produced and managed.
The control room was epic!
Such a shame places like this closed ... I recall working in control rooms like this as an instrument technician in the uk. I'm now 64 yrs old and retired living abroad.
I grew up in Eggborough, my father worked in the control room as a unit operator.
Worked there in 80's electrical contracting, remember all the areas shown.
Spent many happy times on site designing / modifying the automatic control systems here, and the sister site at Ironbridge while working for George Kent.
My dad worked at Eggborough for many years.
As a child I was lucky enough to have several tours "on permit"
Including when they changed the steam valves on the turbine hall roof with a helicopter so I got a helicopter ride too
The immense size of the turbine hall was matched by the immense noise.
On one occasion they were working on Unit 4 and had it disassembled
Seeing the size of the internal components and 145 ton mainshaft has never left me
Thanks for sharing 👍
Such a memorable misadventure.
Also made me strangely nostalgic seeing the mighty Peugeot once again.
What a beautiful documentary record this video is! Makes me want to cry to think that this was demolished.
Such a shame. Looked like the equipment was very healthy as if it could have lasted 30+ years to 2050 like it was designed to.
Wow!! That was fascinating. I’m glad you filmed it before it got demolished. Thanks guys!
Hats off to you lads once again, always putting in a shift!
You may not feel the footage is up to standard now, but you documented everything well and got some amazing shots!
Another amazing video guys! The difference in filming styles to your more recent explorations is noticeable but still very watchable! I love that you have the balls to infiltrate and document these places so that others can see too. I'd love to do some proper urbex myself but I'm too concerned about getting caught. Top work as always and look forward to many more :-)
Fantastic video. I was lucky enough to have a permission visit inside Longannet power Station just before it closed. I can't describe how loud it was hearing all the turbines running.
It's sad we're demolishing all these fantastic engineering marvels and we wouldn't be capable of building these power station's nowadays, all the skills have been lost plus they would cost an absolute fortune.
That is what is so depressing. These places come from a different Britain that was competent and forward looking. I bet 99% of the equipment in this station originated in the UK, a situation that is unimaginable now.
I worked there from 78 to 91 still looks same,great work guys John Ollerenshaw
Ironic it was the dash for gas that led to its closure. The madness of the dash for gas is it meant electricity generation became gas focused. Well now gas is very expensive pushing electricity prices skyward.
Exactly, and that's why the government can't afford to decommission Drax power station, which is just down the road from Eggborough.
It has capacity to power over two million homes by burning biomass, making it unfavorable to the Green lobbies, but that is a hell of a lot of people who would be without power if it was ever closed and not replaced with a suitable facility.
It had bugger all to do with the dash for gas, that was back in the 90's. It was the dash to go green that killed it.
That control room is something else! Well played lads, and well done
Well done lads that was another amazing video. Keep the good work up. I do love the video power stations
Wow that control room is breathtaking! Fantastic video as always!! 😁
Brilliant! Simply brilliant. I was fascinated to travel with you the journey through the steam plant. It's gigantic and overwhelming. Seeing those 500MW turbine-generators was spellbinding. Keep "infiltrating".
What a fantastic, interesting video and you have certainly captured history as it has now been demolished. Captivating watch. 👏👏
Amazing video guys! So glad you decided to share this. While it's clear your skills have increased since 2019, this is still an amazing video and it would have been a shame if the documentation of this amazing building had never seen the light of day.
Thank you so much for preserving memories of this power station, great commentary and video as always
Excellent, filmed and edited like a professional documentary brilliantly narrated well done I really enjoyed it!
Jaw dropping. To film this colossal site before it was demolished was something special. Thank you for putting so much effort into making this video
What a worthwhile day out; and in light of the ending (I won't spoil it) what a priceless document. Well done, and thanks for sharing this highlight of your noble cause.
This was so well done, the narration, the history, the footage, the music. Above all, the appreciation of the whole experience really came across well. Subbed 👍
The music sounds like Banco de Gaia. I have the album on CD and it is great.
It is a real shame these plants are being demolished in their entirety. The UK is hopefully going to build a fleet of the Rolls Royce Small Modular Reactor power plants, with a nominal rating of 470MW per unit.
The former coal plants had units rated at 500MW, using steam at approx 565degC 160bar, reheating to 565deg C 40 bar, with a turbine, condensing plant and cooling water system to match.
The PWR produces produces large amounts of hot fog compared to the superheated steam of the coal plants, so a different turbine arrangement would be required to work at these wetter and higher mass flow steam conditions.
But these alternators were in a pretty good condition and well engineered compared to later designs of air cooled machines used in CCGT plants. (Specifically the EE and AEI 500MW units. ( Eggborough had a new one built about 2005))
For each of the remaining 2000MW coal plant sites, Repower two of the four Turbine generators only with modified turbines, build two reactors where the redundant boiler plant was located.
Retain the Cooling towers and cooling water pumps and culverts. Hopefully save a load of money acquiring new sites, civil works, switchgear, and grid connection.
went here few year ago, epic place! we got on site and met up with like 10 other people who knew how to get in, we got to see all of it once inside lol really enjoyed it for sure
Wow!! Thanks for documenting!
I came across this by accident and I am glad I did. That was amazing, you lads did a brilliant job, so interesting to see it all intact. The Power Station at Fiddlers Ferry in Cheshire is lying empty now, just waiting the same fate as Eggborough. I was over in Northern Ireland a few years ago and I got the opportunity to have a quick look around some of the old H Blocks prison, notoriously known as Long Kesh as it was also waiting to be demolished. That was an eerie place I can tell you. I thought about the type of people who had walked around those Blocks and Yards. I have just subbed guys 👍
Amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Great video and remembrance of Eggborough. An amazing industrial facility. Thank you.
Urbex is so important for documenting the country heritage.
This was a fantastic explore, many thanks for posting.
Great video - thanks guys!!!
You have done a fantastic job of filming this!!!!! Great.
Wow what a video xx I was at work in cowick at the shooting ground a few weeks ago when the final towers was dropped and we felt it 😢 so sad that our landmarks for nearing home on the motorway has changed x
The BEST vídeo of this kind!!!!
Congratulations!!!
Love the music choice bro, well done and thanks for sharing.
I worked at Eggborough as a Unit Operator then Assistant Shift Charge Engineer. Considering the units were and started up and shut down nearly every day, especially towards the end of its life, it was incredibly reliable and very flexible. Almost everything in the place was high quality and British made. It was an incredible place to see when it was all running.
I'm fascinated by these places, loved this video! New subscriber now :-)
Absolutely brilliant thank you so very much.
Thank you, you have captured something very special there.
Went to an open day at rugeley power station decades ago. The size, the noise, it was astonishing
Ha, Rugely was a baby in comparison. Did 2 outages there. We were there, on the roof when A station came down and all TV reception was lost in the town.
amazing video, glad i found your channel.
What a brilliant video, thank you for sharing.
Absolutely brilliant. Hard to believe a full documentary isn’t automatically done for historical reasons. This is historical information for future generations
Used to be able to see this place on the horizon from work. It was a good 20 miles away but being in one of the taller buildings in town on top of a hill you could see quite the distance.
The thing is though you say it’s not up to your usual standard, it is a real life capture of an experience and it’s still an exciting and gripping video to watch … I stumbled upon your channel by accident and decided to watch and I’ve already subscribed as I think you are going to be an interesting channel to follow.
You put it right. I also film "urban life", but that ain't a film set where you can just direct things. Most of my best footage is, ironically, the less choreographed ones because I captured said event, not that I had a time to put my tripod up or something!
Well worth putting the footage up thanks guys
That looks like a Blast to sneak into there. I would be looking over my shoulder the whole time I was there but that’s part of the Fun! What a huge plant. Can’t believe it was completely abandoned. Thanks for the tour. I think I would have been tempted to take the red warning light in the control room! 😂🥳😎
Amazing job! What a fascinating place to see... SO great you've done it before it was demolished. What a pity that it wasn't turned into a museum, since it was so intact.
Quality explore lads.
Fantastic video thanks for sharing 👌🙏👌
Fantastic video chaps. 👌👌
This video is perfect. The soundtrack is perfect. Mind blown. 💣
First time I watched this channel. Must give credit for the sound design. I’ve worked on a similar power station and this is exactly what I would imagine it sounds when everything is turned off.
Absolutely amazing, Fiddlers ferry power is next to be demolished
Awesome video , your knowledge is fairly impressive for some young lads, I watched the Westwood demolition in Wigan 1989 👍🏻
Excellent Job!
Bloody excellent stuff 👍🏻
That control room! 😎😎
I fell like I'm watching a real-life tour of some of the levels in Doom. This is just incredible.
Thank you for the memories 😊
WOW! You made it out just in time.
Excellent video 😁. Grand slam ⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾. Thanks for sharing 🙏👌🙏👌
Used to work for a company that had some monitoring equipment but never got to go. Went to cement works in Hope Valley with them, that was pretty impressive.
Awesome video ❤️
I used to work at eggborough as part of the security team in 2004, one of our daily tasks was to run the mail about the station. I remember the control room was amazing. In 2018, just around the back was air liquid (a cryogenic plant) which I also worked. Basically eggborough decided that they wanted the land back as it was on a 25year lease. So they just cut their 11kv supply at short notice, leaving the plant to run on generators and instructed them to dismantle and disappear within a contracted period of time.
Its what u get when u sell to foriegn firms,,, they rip everything of all profit then leave
this may be my new favourite channel
Brilliant video, that place is vast. Still suprised to see no security about, there would still be stuff worth nicking.
Shame its gone buts progress for you. Another spot for yet another housing estate no doubt.
what an awesome explore - truly amazing place. And to have a comment from the doyen of the Urb-Ex community The Proper People serves to show you guys have made and surpassed the grade. Top Notch material.
Amazing video of an awesome power station and made in time before destruction
Delivered some parts required for this place about 10years ago drove the van inside to deliver them emense place,Men walking about with leather head protection against the heat amazing visit always will remember it
It may have been an early video but it was still a good one. When the towers went down it reminded me when I watched tinsley towers get destroyed in Sheffield 😢 The towers for many meant you were nearly home
Watching the tinsley towers drop was a sad moment, glad we attended though.
Amazing explore lads filmed really well and music fits perfectly shame a piece of history has gone.