Norwood Coking Plant
Dunston’s Norwood coking plant opened in 1913. The battery of sixty-six coke ovens, installed by the NCB in 1947, produced up to 340,000 tons of coke per annum, in addition to town gas, crude benzole, sulphate of ammonia and tar by-products. On 7th October 1978, a Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns Newcastle-built 0-4-0 saddle tank (W/No.7412 built in 1948) was in use at a public event at Norwood, by then under the ownership of NCB-CPD’s subsidiary, National Smokeless Fuels Ltd., (NSF). It had been retained on standby, but the ovens were finally extinguished in 1980. Following demolition, the site was transformed into the 1990 National Garden Festival and has since been redeveloped into residential housing.
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Norwood Coking Plant
Dunston’s Norwood coking plant opened in 1913. The battery of sixty-six coke ovens, installed by the NCB in 1947, produced up to 340,000 tons of coke per annum, in addition to town gas, crude benzole, sulphate of ammonia and tar by-products. On 7th October 1978, a Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns Newcastle-built 0-4-0 saddle tank (W/No.7412 built in 1948) was in use at a public event at Norwood, by then under the ownership of NCB-CPD’s subsidiary, National Smokeless Fuels Ltd., (NSF). It had been retained on standby, but the ovens were finally extinguished in 1980. Following demolition, the site was transformed into the 1990 National Garden Festival and has since been redeveloped into residential housing.
© Gordon Edgar collection - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission