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English: Redundant railway sidings. A powered capstan and rope-rollers can be glimpsed between the two sidings > 1608018. (A capstan is a rotating machine used to apply force to ropes, cables, and hawsers, commonly, though not exclusively, in a maritime setting. Hydraulically-powered capstans were sometimes used in railway goods yards for shunting, or shifting railcars short distances.) This indicates that a rope system was used to move tank wagons of aviation fuel into and within the depot; the haulage was provided by the capstan which could have been electrically or hydraulically powered. The use of rope haulage avoided locomotives having to enter the sidings: steam locomotives would have been an obvious fire hazard in an aviation fuel depot.
During WWII the site served as a Ministry of Defence oil depot. It had private railway sidings which have since been disconnected but are still in place > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1607110. Serving as a petrol storage depot after the war - supplying fuel to RAF Coltishall > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/538673 until the airbase was closed in 2006 - the petrol was stored in a number of subterranean tanks which are shown as lakes on OS Maps. A look at Magicmap reveals that the lakes are not lakes at all. Deemed surplus to requirements the depot was sold in summer 2009. |
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| Author | Evelyn Simak |
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| current | 07:13, 4 March 2011 | | 640 × 435 (101 KB) | GeographBot (talk | contribs) | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=Redundant railway sidings A powered capstan and rope-rollers can be glimpsed between the two sidings > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1608018. (A capstan is a rotating machine used to apply force |
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