Sorry for the late post on this one! Id totally forgotten about it.
Paid a quick visit here at the end of the summer after hearing that the decommissioning of the power station just over the road had reached the 'care and maintenance' stage. Now i cant say for sure but i think the substation itself has never been a designated nuclear site so dodgy trespass rules dont technically apply, that didn't stop it feeling a little bit naughty tho! The reactors are now cocooned in white cladded boxes but there did still seem to be some activity on the site with several cars and vans coming and going while i was there, quite similar to Berkeley just without the footpath excuse i guess! In all honesty tho apart from the Magnox sign on the drive i hardly noticed to power station. The overgrowth provides plenty of cover and theres plenty of that! Bradwell shut down in 2002 and as its so utterly remote i guess there was no reason to keep the high voltage connection operating so the entire substation has had its wires cut, copper items removed and seems like they just shut the gates one day and have let it go back to nature!
I started out mooching around outside but soon gravitated towards the central hub of the site. A group of buildings in the centre of the sub consisted mainly of backup generators, compressors, maintenance workshop and even a sort of 'control room' (although it might be a bit of a stretch referring to it as that it did have opaline lights!). I found the whole experience pretty interesting really, you just dont get to explore one of these beasts without killing yourself usually so finding this sitting here in such a great state of natural decay was pretty mint.
Paid a quick visit here at the end of the summer after hearing that the decommissioning of the power station just over the road had reached the 'care and maintenance' stage. Now i cant say for sure but i think the substation itself has never been a designated nuclear site so dodgy trespass rules dont technically apply, that didn't stop it feeling a little bit naughty tho! The reactors are now cocooned in white cladded boxes but there did still seem to be some activity on the site with several cars and vans coming and going while i was there, quite similar to Berkeley just without the footpath excuse i guess! In all honesty tho apart from the Magnox sign on the drive i hardly noticed to power station. The overgrowth provides plenty of cover and theres plenty of that! Bradwell shut down in 2002 and as its so utterly remote i guess there was no reason to keep the high voltage connection operating so the entire substation has had its wires cut, copper items removed and seems like they just shut the gates one day and have let it go back to nature!
I started out mooching around outside but soon gravitated towards the central hub of the site. A group of buildings in the centre of the sub consisted mainly of backup generators, compressors, maintenance workshop and even a sort of 'control room' (although it might be a bit of a stretch referring to it as that it did have opaline lights!). I found the whole experience pretty interesting really, you just dont get to explore one of these beasts without killing yourself usually so finding this sitting here in such a great state of natural decay was pretty mint.
