SCUNTHORPE STEELWORKS (14)

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SCUNTHORPE STEELWORKS (14)
SCUNTHORPE STEELWORKS (14)

Rail handling shed
The on-site rolling mills produce rails for railway tracks and they are stored here before despatch on special wagons.

National Transport Trust visit June 25 2022
The Steelworks is served by c.100 miles (161 Km) of internal standard gauge industrial railway lines. I took most of the photos here from the train provided by Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society who run regular tours around the whole site. The train took us into the shed along the track on the right.

PLANT AND STRUCTURES: THE TRIUMPH OF FUNCTION OVER DESIGN

There are four blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, but only two of them are currently in commission. The only other two working blast furnaces in Britain are at Port Talbot in South Wales. The four at Scunthorpe are named after English queens: Mary, Bess, Anne and Victoria. Coke, iron ore, sinter and limestone are fed – or charged – into the top of the furnaces. Steel is produced in them continuously and the molten metal is periodically drawn off and fed into special heavily insulated wagons ('torpedos') to be moved elsewhere on the site.

Scunthorpe Steelworks is in North Lincolnshire in Eastern England. We travelled round the entire steelworks by steam train. Although we were given a guided tour, I can't confidently identify everything in these photos, so I mostly haven't tried to do so. I took most of this series of photos to capture the style and architecture of the plant and the various industrial structures. Quite a lot of the site is also derelict or abandoned, which also provides photographic interest in its own right.

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