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Miscellaneous
Avon Bridge Power Station: misc_abps155d
The final photograph showing the aftermath of a shunting
incident at the Power Station's rotary coal tippler in the late 1940s.
This photograph also shows some of the other mechanical handling plant
associated with the rotary coal tipper. This included an enclosed vertical
bucket type elevator which took the discharged slack coal from the pit below
the tipper up to a feed chute over the high level troughed band conveyer. From
here the slack coal could be taken to any of the storage hoppers above the
Power Station boilers.
Parallel with the standard gauge line to the rotary coal
tipper is a narrow gauge line with at least two side dump trucks. There were
several narrow gauge lines on the Avon Bridge Power Station site and this line
is recorded on the 1953 ordnance survey map of the site.
Robert Ferris
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