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A Hunslet Austerity did the Manchester Tram system a few years ago.
Now there's a thought for a new thread? Surviving telegraph poles on the UK railway system!That’s some telegraph pole!
Well that’s just taken at least an hour of my life up.Might I suggest you take a look at the telegraph pole appreciation societies website !
Some years ago the Mid-Norfolk Railway carried MOD traffic (armoured vehicles on Warflats) to/from Dereham Station onto the main line at Wymondham.
NR sends one train to Dereham for servicing during winter
Now there's a thought for a new thread? Surviving telegraph poles on the UK railway system!
The RHTT is serviced at Dereham; this is quite a regular run in the leaf fall 'season', in my recollection it was a weekly visit last year. I'm not sure who provides the actual train but the traction is DRS.
The train is normally stored at Stowmarket
Mon 3rd February 2020. GBRf 66780 hauls the ex - Hotchley Hill empties from British Gypsum, through East Leake Station to the Midland Mainline at Loughborough Junction, heading onwards to Middlesbrough. The train is seen from Bridge 313, Woodgate Rd, East Leake, heading to Barnston Tunnel.
Apparently, DSG from Germany is now being stock piled at British Gypsum. Maybe getting it in while they can before potential Euro tariffs next year?
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OK, I've done my best searching for 'DSG' as a 'TLA' (Three letter abbreviation/acronym) but I've got nothing. I can guess various things but I'd like to know what it actually is.
Quite right Duffield. Should have said FGD!
Jesting aside, synthetic gypsum, industrial gypsum, FGD (Flu Gas Desulphurised Gypsum) and DSG (Desulphurised Gypsum) are all names for gypsum that is manmade and not naturally found in mines. Synthetic gypsum typically is created when using scrubbers of lime in coal fired power plants to clean the smoke for sulphate.
Production of synthetic gypsum is already decreasing heavily as bio fuels and natural gas are replacing coal in many power plants. In 20 to 30 years synthetic gypsum will no longer be produced as fossil fuels will be phased out of use in the power plants.
It’s already gone from the UK for these purposes, Drax, Cottam, West Burton and other former coal burning power stations that supplied BG British Gypsum East Leake all gone. Now shipped in from Germany
However, there is plenty of natural gypsum in the extensive mines under Hotchley Hill to keep the plasterboard mills at this plant rolling for many years to come.
Still produced at Ratcliffe-on-Soar?Quite right Duffield. Should have said FGD!
Jesting aside, synthetic gypsum, industrial gypsum, FGD (Flu Gas Desulphurised Gypsum) and DSG (Desulphurised Gypsum) are all names for gypsum that is manmade and not naturally found in mines. Synthetic gypsum typically is created when using scrubbers of lime in coal fired power plants to clean the smoke for sulphate.
Production of synthetic gypsum is already decreasing heavily as bio fuels and natural gas are replacing coal in many power plants. In 20 to 30 years synthetic gypsum will no longer be produced as fossil fuels will be phased out of use in the power plants.
It’s already gone from the UK for these purposes, Drax, Cottam, West Burton and other former coal burning power stations that supplied BG British Gypsum East Leake all gone. Now shipped in from Germany
However, there is plenty of natural gypsum in the extensive mines under Hotchley Hill to keep the plasterboard mills at this plant rolling for many years to come.
Although there is a mountain of coal stacked between the power station and the A453, Ratcliffe seems to be very rarely fired these days. Possibly now strategic reserve for when the temperature plummets for more than a few days. Couple of pictures illustrate the difference over the last year.Still produced at Ratcliffe-on-Soar?
Quite right Duffield. Should have said FGD!
Jesting aside, synthetic gypsum, industrial gypsum, FGD (Flu Gas Desulphurised Gypsum) and DSG (Desulphurised Gypsum) are all names for gypsum that is manmade and not naturally found in mines. Synthetic gypsum typically is created when using scrubbers of lime in coal fired power plants to clean the smoke for sulphate.
Production of synthetic gypsum is already decreasing heavily as bio fuels and natural gas are replacing coal in many power plants. In 20 to 30 years synthetic gypsum will no longer be produced as fossil fuels will be phased out of use in the power plants.
It’s already gone from the UK for these purposes, Drax, Cottam, West Burton and other former coal burning power stations that supplied BG British Gypsum East Leake all gone. Now shipped in from Germany
However, there is plenty of natural gypsum in the extensive mines under Hotchley Hill to keep the plasterboard mills at this plant rolling for many years to come.
How longer does it take to fire up a coal power station? I seem to remember gas plants can be fired up almost immediately.Although there is a mountain of coal stacked between the power station and the A453, Ratcliffe seems to be very rarely fired these days. Possibly now strategic reserve for when the temperature plummets for more than a few days. Couple of pictures illustrate the difference over the last year.
Still produced at Ratcliffe-on-Soar?
Nene Valley Railway was used as a transfer point for large steel pipes, part of an infrastructure project. They were delivered by mainline loco, usually a Class 60, along the Fletton Branch before NVR loco's took them onto Yarwell Junction for offloading. I worked a few of these trains, when I was a volunteer there. Sometimes the 'mainline' loco worked the train through to Yarwell Junction, with a route conductor.
Aye, that was probably it. Similar pipe traffic was also offloaded at Grantham.probably when they were building the Lindsey to Buncefield oil pipeline
I think in the early days there was still connections to the British sugar works but don't know if there was any traffic