3 Comments Posted by Skook

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This is a conveyor line travelling uphill.
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The spots were used to light up the site at night. Being the complex is so massive it was necessary to make sure a great deal of it was lit. Accidents in a coal breaker were relatively low and RAC wanted to keep it that way.
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The original plan was to convert the breaker into a museum and actually have parts of it running. That plan has since been scrapped, no pun intended. There was a lot more to this site than meets the eye. Having looked at the original plans, this site is massive, not to mention all of the rail yards that have been torn up and company houses that have been demolished. St. Nick was the largest in the world when it opened in 1933 and is still impressive. Oh, and RAC still uses parts of the site and the surrounding area.