@General Lighting 535430 wrote:

If its anything like the closure of previous power stations anyone putting on a event on the site there (legal or otherwise) will have to keep a very sharp lookout for misguided trippers trying to scale a 132 000 V grid pylon or get into the SSE to National Grid substation, as usually when a power station is levelled the substation is left there (or it would break the ring/backup high voltage feeds used for resilience). A few years ago this poor lad who had presumably taken a snide pill or done too much wandered out of a club in Norwich and walked 2 miles where he climbed straight into the Trowse substation.

even the smaller bit is bare open wires energised to 33 000 V …

EDF (now UK power networks) engineers found his body a few days later when they went to investigate a circuit breaker having auto tripped and re-energised.

no one is 100% sure why the lad decided to go there as there was no evidence he wanted to harm himself, but when you might have this sort of kit within walking distance of the rave the risks must be far greater…

I guess that as long as you can cover the costs, you can ensure that all the important / dangerous areas are manned by security in order to prevent any potential tragedy occurring. Would be a sick place to have a party though!

Usually a substation enclosure is guarded by razor barbed wire etc, has the picture of the stick man being knocked flat by electric every 2 metres and is uninviting and scarey to the largest contingent of moosers.

I still have a certain amount of “respectful fear” just for 230/400V infrastructure in plant rooms etc at work and that is all brand new insulated stuff and I know exactly what is dangerous and what is safe (ironically at our largest site in Suffolk SSE did the metering, I thought I recognised that sort of service fuse head :laugh_at:)

One thing to watch for is those folk wanting easy cash thinking that there is valuable copper in there especially earthing cable and “its empty so no ones using it”.

I am not going to pre-judge travellers/gypsies or foreigners as even the feds know that it is not just them who think this way, a white English lad round my way got sparked from 33 000 V trying to get metal from a disused factory. the saddest part of it was he was trying to get cash to buy some presents for his kid as he had become a dad recently but wasn’t able to get work.

might even be worth looking at using the site legally if possible, the Dutch have a lot of events in a old factory what was once used by the electricity company to build and test transformers…

Yeah be careful with a place like that, but if it’s closed down would any power still be conveyed into or from it? Down brighton we used to have parties at shoreham power station, although it wasn’t a real power station nor was it actually inside a power station, nor was it atucally on the power station grounds we still called it the powerstation party.

There were two big chimneys that burn coal but the knocked one down in the late 80’s that we watched from the sussex downs, controlled demolition style. The second one was eventually demolished in 2000.

Now stands a big metal grey gas power station.

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