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Piped Coal Experiments

20th December 1963
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Keywords : Economic Geology, Coal, Fuels

THE use of pipelines to take coal from

pithead to power stations was in the experimental stage, emphasized Lord Derwent, Minister of State at the Home Office, in the Upper House this week. Until the experimental work had gone further it could not be said whether this work could be speeded up, he added.

Lord Merrivale had pointed out that on an average working day the fuelling' of a 2,000-megawatt power station called for 20 of the heaviest coal trains the railways could handle, with the corresponding problem of the returning empty wagons. A 20-in, pipeline for the hydraulic movement of coal would achieve exactly the same result, he said.

Nearly elm. Spent on MI SINCE the MI was opened in 1960 nearly ilm. has been spent on it. Mr. Marples said in the Commons this week that £540,000 has gone on normal maintenance and £352,000 on special repairs. In addition, a number of improvements were being made.

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Organisations: Upper House, Home Office
People: Derwent

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