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ABANDONED WILLINGTON POWER STATION
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📖 HISTORY

Willington Power Station was a coal fired power station consisting of 2 units, Willington A and Willington B. It had a generating capacity of 804MW, with construction on the A station beginning in 1954, and the B station in 1959.
The A station was fully commissioned in 1959, and the B station in 1962. When running at full capacity, the boilers would burn through ~8000 tons of coal per day, which was delivered via a rail link to the nearby Derby-Birmingham Line.
The layout of the facility was unique among UK power stations due to cost cutting measures taken during construction. The boilers were arranged in a square formation, flanked on two sides by their respective turbine houses. This was done to allow access for a special lifting rig to install the 160 ton generator stators in each turbine house, rather than the conventional method of using the structure and overhead cranes in the turbine houses. This meant that the turbine houses only needed to support overhead cranes at a 50 tons capacity, thus significantly reducing construction costs.
The A station closed in 1995, and the B station followed in 1999. As is typical with old power stations, demolition very quickly followed. The cooling towers are all that remain, and with the site still in limbo, it would seem nobody is willing to pay for their demolition 20 years on.

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