Blast: more scrap metal in South Wales

            Today [19th January 2024], Tata, the owner of the steel plant at Port Talbot in South Wales, announced the closure of the two remaining blast furnaces at the site.

60091 'Barry Needham' passes  blast furnace #5 (on the left) and blast furnace #6.   The chimney to the right is part of the plant's power plant, whereas the red brick building behind is the sinter plant, where iron ore dust is processed into a form ready for feeding the blast furnaces.

Tata plans to replace the blast furnaces with electric arc furnaces, to be fed with scrap metal.

In the week that DB Cargo withdrew the last of its class 60s from service, it seemed appropriate to show even more scrap, in the form of 60091.

For those that might enjoy the dirt and detail of this, one of the UK's largest industrial plants, I've uploaded this image in high resolution.

Taken on: August 16, 2016

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