Greenwich Power Station (London, UK)
N 51° 29.096 W 000° 00.064
30U E 708211 N 5708018
From bricks constructed Greenwich Power Station, located at Thames riverside in Greenwich, is one of iconic monuments of industrial architecture in London.
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Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/30/2014
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From bricks constructed Greenwich Power Station, located at Thames riverside in Greenwich, is one of iconic monuments of industrial architecture in London.
Greenwich Power Station is a standby oil, gas, and formerly coal-fired power station on the River Thames at Greenwich in south-east London. Despite being over one hundred years old, the station is still available as a back-up electricity source for the London Underground. The station is an early example of a steel-framed building with a stone-clad brick cover. Coal was delivered to the large coal jetty in the river, which stands on 16 Doric-styled, cast iron columns. Coal was then sent to the white-painted storage bunkers on the west side of the station. The pier is now no longer used because the relatively small amount of oil used at the station now comes by road tanker. Burning gas and oil does not produce the amount of ash that burning coal does, so it is not removed via the jetty like the coal ash used to be. [wiki]