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Drax Power Station - gypsum handling facilities
by Chris Allen for square SE6527 Drax power station removes about 90+% of the sulphur dioxide from its flue gases... (more)
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Eggborough and Drax Power Stations
by Alan Murray-Rust geograph for square SE5723 Taken to show how these large power stations can affect local weather... (more)
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Inside the turbine hall
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SE6627 In the foreground is Turbo-Alternator No.3, undergoing maintenance. The... (more)
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place:Drax Power StationX
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Drax Power Station - biomass infrastructure
by Chris Allen for square SE6526 Drax is converting 3 of its 6 units to biomass firing at a cost of about £700... (more)
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Drax Power Station
by Chris Allen for square SE6627 Photographed from Burn across the WWII airfield.
Drax is Europe's second... (more)
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Coal scoop
by Alan Murray-Rust geograph for square SE6526 This scoops up coal from the stockpile for feeding into the boilers.
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Carrying sustainable biomass
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SE6526 Part of one of the 200 railway wagons specially constructed to carry biomass... (more)
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place:Drax Power StationX
top:Energy InfrastructureX
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Model of the power station in the Visitor Centre
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SE6627 Bottom left are the domes of the biomass storage area, with the coal stockpile... (more)
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Drax Power Station - biomass and gypsum
by Chris Allen geograph for square SE6628 In the foreground is a huge mass of crumbling biomass and I am not sure what... (more)
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Drax power station and pylon line from the railway, Temple Hirst
by Christopher Hilton geograph for square SE6026 |
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Drax Power Station - along the rail lines
by Chris Allen geograph for square SE6527 A very good view of the power station seen along the internal rail network. A... (more)
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Have you a head for heights?
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SE6626 Maintenance workers on one of the cooling towers, over 100 metres above the... (more)
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High pressure turbine
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SE6626 This is the first stage of the turbo-alternator unit. The domed machine on the... (more)
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building type:Turbine HouseX
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Fans in the boiler house
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SE6627 A great deal of air has to be circulated in the boiler processes, both as part... (more)
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place:Drax Power StationX
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Fan HouseX
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Pulverised Fuel Mill 1E
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SE6627 Fuel – either coal or biomass – is ground to a very fine powder in these mills... (more)
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Boiler HouseX
place:Drax Power StationX
top:Energy InfrastructureX
top:IndustryX
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By the cooling towers
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SE6627 This gives an idea of the size of the cooling towers, which rise to a height of... (more)
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Back of the boiler house
by Alan Murray-Rust geograph for square SE6627 Exhaust gas from the boilers (left) passes through cleaners (the grey... (more)
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Ready for the tour
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SE6627 Members of the party boarding the coach for the tour of the site after the... (more)
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Biomass day tanks
by Alan Murray-Rust geograph for square SE6626 These are the ready-use storage silos which feed biomass directly into the... (more)
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View towards Drax Power Station from north of Temple Hirst
by Christopher Hilton geograph for square SE6026 |
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View towards Drax Power Station from railway north of Temple Hirst
by Christopher Hilton geograph for square SE6025 In the middle distance, the embankment of the former main line railway, now... (more)
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Drax Power Station
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SE6627 The location near Camela Farm offers an unobstructed panorama of the complete... (more)
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Drax Power Station - from dirty to green
by Chris Allen for square SE6526 In the foreground is the stockpile of coal with one of two bucket wheel machines... (more)
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Bucket WheelX
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Coal StockpileX
Cooling TowersX
place:Drax Power StationX
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Drax Power Station
by Chris Allen for square SE6627 Over a mile long from end to end this is the UK's largest power station and... (more)
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New Road by Drax Power Station
by Chris Allen geograph for square SE6627 This is an almost 4 GW fossil fuel powered power station that is now undergoing... (more)
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New houses on Main Road, Drax
by Graham Hogg geograph for square SE6726 Apparently overshadowed by cooling towers of Drax Power Station, each higher... (more)
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Drax reflection
by Graham Hogg geograph for square SE6625 Some of the cooling towers of Drax Power Station reflected in a flooded field.
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Power generation beside the River Ouse
by Graham Hogg for square SE7025 In the distance is Drax power station. Completed in 1986 it was the last... (more)
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Drax Power Station
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Power generation beside the River Ouse
by Graham Hogg geograph for square SE7124 In the foreground is one of the turbines of the Rusholme windfarm.Ahead is Drax... (more)
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Drax Power Station
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River OuseX
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WindfarmX
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Power generation beside the River Ouse
by Graham Hogg for square SE7226 Viewed from the Boothferry Bridge SU0017 : Public footpath across barley field, Sixpenny Handley.. In the distance is Drax power... (more)
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Boothferry BridgeX
Drax Power Station
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Drax Power Ltd - Barlow Ash Disposal Site
by Chris Allen geograph for square SE6528 The identity is proclaimed on the sign right bottom. A railway line runs through... (more)
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Drax Power Station - cooling towers
by Chris Allen geograph for square SE6627 Four of the six towers in the northern grouping. There are another six to the... (more)
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Drax Power Station
by Chris Allen geograph for square SE6626 Four of the 6 southern cooling towers, there are another six to the north.... (more)
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power station:CoalX
Cooling TowersX
place:Drax Power StationX
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Drax Power Station - Biomass Storage
by Chris Allen for square SE6526 Drax is converting to predominant biomass fuelling after a period of trials with... (more)
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Water course by Drax Power Station
by Chris Allen geograph for square SE6628 This water course is associated with the Power Station and traverses a heavily... (more)
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Drax Power Station
by Chris Allen for square SE6627 From a footpath bridge over an internal road. The 850' chimney and huge... (more)
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place:Drax Power StationX
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Biomass silos, Drax Power Station
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SE6526 As of 2019, four of the six generating sets at Drax have been converted to... (more)
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Lytag plant, Drax
by Chris Allen geograph for square SE6628 This is not on the maps or the aerial photographs yet. Lytag is a light... (more)
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Drax Power Station - Gypsum loading facility
by Chris Allen geograph for square SE6527 This is where gypsum produced by flue gas desulphurisation can be loaded into... (more)
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View from West Lane railway bridge
by Alan Murray-Rust geograph for square SE5828 Drax Power Station in the distance is the last operational coal fired power... (more)
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Wild flowers beside the River Ouse
by Graham Hogg geograph for square SE6926 With the massive Drax power station on the far bank
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place:Long DraxX
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Small house, giant cooling towers
by Graham Hogg for square SE6626 Three of the twelve massive cooling towers at Drax power station, each taller... (more)
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The River Ouse near Hemingbrough
by Graham Hogg geograph for square SE6729 With the massive Drax power station on the far bank
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Drax Power Station from SW, 1988
by Ben Brooksbank geograph for square SE6424 View NE from A1041 between Carlton and Camblesforth. It is very impressive,... (more)
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Drax Power Station - internal rail network
by Chris Allen geograph for square SE6527 Undertaking work on the rail lines that allow coal and (in the very near future)... (more)
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Drax Power Station - permissive footpath
by Chris Allen geograph for square SE6526 This is part of the walk around the perimeter but at this point is not a... (more)
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power station:CoalX
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Drax Power Station - cooling towers
by Chris Allen geograph for square SE6627 A deliberately underexposed shot of five of the six northern cooling towers.... (more)
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Drax Power Station - bucket wheel machine
by Chris Allen geograph for square SE6527 This moves up to 3000 tonnes of coal per hour from the coal stockpile to the... (more)
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power station:CoalX
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place:Drax Power StationX
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Drax Power Station
by Chris Allen for square SE6627 Seen across the rail lines that bring coal and biomass and take away gypsum. The... (more)
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Flood meadows near Barlow
by Alan Murray-Rust for square SE6429 Lying between the river and the embankment. Drax Power Station SE6627 in the... (more)
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