Coal silos, Avonmouth
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Coal silos, Avonmouth
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall Taken: 25 Nov 2007
The orange structure is a coal silo system used to load imported coal into freight trains for dispatch to, most likely, power stations such as Didcot. In the foreground is a '3663' depot (check your telephone keypad to see what that spells) and behind that a cold store.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.510914
Longitude
-2.696803