GPSS pipeline markers
Introduction
The photograph on this page of GPSS pipeline markers by Robin Webster as part of the Geograph project.
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GPSS pipeline markers
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 7 Mar 2015
The Government Pipeline and Storage System has a route running closely parallel to the A4 for some distance. At settlements it usually deviates, to loop around the housing along the road as it was when installed in the 1940s. Here it appears to have done that, but more recent development has encroached on the route. The left hand post looks like an upright of the original marker which resembled a stile, usually in a hedge. The road boundary is now a garden fence. On the right a more recent marker carries the information plate of Serco Gulf Engineering who operate the pipeline on behalf of the government. The pipeline carries mainly oil products for civil use these days. The GPSS plate is applied beneath.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.398522
Longitude
-1.178312