Orgreave Coking Works
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Orgreave Coking Works
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 4 Mar 1989
The big structure with an arched opening is the quenching tower. Emerging from the hole is the blue locomotive and attached coke car (lack of smoke suggests this is not containing a freshly discharged (unquenched) load. The round structure with a conical bottom is almost certainly the quenching water header tank. The structure behind is almost certainly the coal conveying plant feeding the bunkers that charge the loading cars running on top of the battery.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.379973
Longitude
-1.367081