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            Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, Warrington, Cheshire

Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is a decommissioned coal fired power station located in Warrington, Cheshire, North-West England. Opened in 1971,the station had a generating capacity of 1,989 megawatts and took water from the River Mersey. The power station closed on 31 March 2020.

With its eight 114-metre (374 ft) high cooling towers and 200-metre (660 ft) high chimney the station is a prominent local landmark and can be seen from as far away as the Peak District and the Pennines.

When it was built, the station mainly burned coal mined in the South Yorkshire Coalfield and transported across the Pennines on the Manchester-Sheffield-Wath electric railway.Later the coal was imported. At full capacity, 16,000 tonnes of coal were burned each day.

On 18 November 2015 Amber Rudd the Minister in charge of the Department of Energy & Climate Change proposed that the UK's remaining coal-fired power stations will be shut by 2025 with their use restricted by 2023.

On 31 March 2020, the plant was desynchronized from the National Grid, ending nearly 50 years of electricity generation.Demolition of the station was due to begin in 2020 and will take up to seven years. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, work on the site did not go ahead in 2020.As of May 2022, no date has been set for demolition work to start.

Taken in: UK / England / Cuerdley (show map)

Taken on: January 29, 2011

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Camera: Sony DSLR-A230, f/7.1, 1/400 sec, 200mm (=300mm), ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony DSLR-A230
Aperture:	f/7.1
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length:	200mm (35mm equivalent: 300mm)
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
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