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ORG179-Orgreave Coking Plant-Top Rail Line to End Rail Wagon Tippler-Coal Blending House LHS-Gas Scrubbers RHS-23-09-1990-A
An image of the British Steel Corporation, Chemicals Division, Coke Ovens and By-Products Works, at Orgreave, on 23/09/1990, just two weeks after closure of the works.
The image portrays the tracks which provided access to and from the top end of the works, or the Handsworth end of the works, down to the bottom end of the works, or the Treeton end of the works. The tracks which have just descended, in a curving loop, from the former Great Central Railway, at Orgreaves Colliery Junction, and have just passed over the top railway weigh bridge. The track on the left-hand-side of the photograph serviced the end-wagon tippler. The set of lines on the right-hand-side of the photograph, which will shortly split into two sets of lines, were the through running roads.
The large structure visible on the left-hand-side of the photograph is one of the coal blending units. The collection of vertical, cylindrical, and horizontal, cylindrical structures on the right-hand-side of the photograph, are part of the gas scrubbing unit, whereby the raw coke oven gas, produced as a by-product of the coke manufacturing process, was firstly ‘washed’, prior to further processing. Beyond the gas scrubbing unit, and not visible in this photograph, lay the Ammonium Sulphate House. In the background of the photograph can be seen No.6 coke oven battery chimney, and beyond that, No.4-5 coke oven battery chimney.
COPYRIGHT RETAINED; N. JORDAN - I would ask that you please note that the copyright of this image is fully retained by N. Jordan. Should you wish to either copy this image, for anything other than for private research purposes, or you wish to reproduce and publish this image elsewhere, then I would be obliged, if you would be good enough to seek and secure my express written agreement beforehand.
ORG179-Orgreave Coking Plant-Top Rail Line to End Rail Wagon Tippler-Coal Blending House LHS-Gas Scrubbers RHS-23-09-1990-A
An image of the British Steel Corporation, Chemicals Division, Coke Ovens and By-Products Works, at Orgreave, on 23/09/1990, just two weeks after closure of the works.
The image portrays the tracks which provided access to and from the top end of the works, or the Handsworth end of the works, down to the bottom end of the works, or the Treeton end of the works. The tracks which have just descended, in a curving loop, from the former Great Central Railway, at Orgreaves Colliery Junction, and have just passed over the top railway weigh bridge. The track on the left-hand-side of the photograph serviced the end-wagon tippler. The set of lines on the right-hand-side of the photograph, which will shortly split into two sets of lines, were the through running roads.
The large structure visible on the left-hand-side of the photograph is one of the coal blending units. The collection of vertical, cylindrical, and horizontal, cylindrical structures on the right-hand-side of the photograph, are part of the gas scrubbing unit, whereby the raw coke oven gas, produced as a by-product of the coke manufacturing process, was firstly ‘washed’, prior to further processing. Beyond the gas scrubbing unit, and not visible in this photograph, lay the Ammonium Sulphate House. In the background of the photograph can be seen No.6 coke oven battery chimney, and beyond that, No.4-5 coke oven battery chimney.
COPYRIGHT RETAINED; N. JORDAN - I would ask that you please note that the copyright of this image is fully retained by N. Jordan. Should you wish to either copy this image, for anything other than for private research purposes, or you wish to reproduce and publish this image elsewhere, then I would be obliged, if you would be good enough to seek and secure my express written agreement beforehand.