Norchard Electricity Sub Station
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Norchard Electricity Sub Station
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 11 Oct 2010
On both sides of the road adjacent to Norchard train station, this extensive electricity facility is a direct successor to the former Lydney power station which occupied the site until closure in the early 1960s. Coal fired, it was supplied directly from Norchard Colliery which used to be on the site taken up now by railway sidings. Near one of the station platforms is a manhole which still gives access to some of the old mine tunnels. See Image Wikipedia has some stuff about it http://wikimapia.org/11736662/former-site-of-Norchard-Colliery and there is lots more on several history sites.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.736535
Longitude
-2.537932