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Luxembourg Central Thermique - Luxembourg - Visited May 2013

Timster1973

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Evening all,

Giving myself a break from posting up residential places, I thought I'd post up an industrial location which was right on the border between Luxembourg and France and formed part of our first full day in Luxembourg before we left for France.

We parked up and made our way over the road and up to the main site.

From the access through to the first few levels, the place looked quite derelict with a lot of graffiti, theft and destruction. We decided to climb to the very top and make our way down.

As we made our way down, the better parts were revealed to us and some of these areas can be seen below.

Some history

Terres Rouge/Centrale Thermique is an abandoned power station in the industrial heart of Luxembourg. Already in the 1870s, four furnaces were built in the region. Since then, many blast furnaces have been added, which led to the blossoming of the Luxembourg steel industry and turned it into one of the largest in Europe. Originally, only the gas which was produced by the creation of cokes was used to generate electricity – next to, evidently older techniques which existed already. Later on, however, a new process was discovered to convert the furnace gas, which was released by the melting of the steel, into electricity. In 1951, the Centrale Thermique was built, which allowed to apply this newly developed technique and thus provide electricity for the surrounding industry. When the last furnace in the region was shut down in 1997, the power station lost its purpose and was left abandoned.

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Thanks for looking in.
 
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skeleton key

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Cool mate was waiting for this to come up

Cracking shots and industrial for you lol

cheers for the share great stuff

:D


 

Shush

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Where are the chairs and beds and peely wallpaper, not even a sign of a pair of shoes or a brolly! But.............reet nice pipes you have there Tim :D

Thanks for sharing

 
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Awesome stuff mate, beautifully captured as always and lots of colour. Love those red turbines :) Place looks massive too, well cool!

 

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I love your photos mate,

I know this is going to sound stupid, but your straight lines are so straight!!! (y)

 
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