A section of the M53 will be closed from Saturday (August 13) so a huge piece of oil refinery equipment can be transported to its new home.
The enormous metal structure is going to be installed at Essar’s Stanlow oil refinery in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. Once installed, the module will allow Stanlow to start the UK’s first hydrogen furnace, which will enable it to cut its emissions.
The module is five times taller than a double decker bus — and six times wider than road salt spreaders which are seen in winter.
In all, 26.5 metres long, 18.5 metres tall, and 14.2 metres wide — meaning the module will straddle both sides of the motorway during the final three miles of its journey, which started back in Thailand. Read more:Metrolink chaos as heatwaves shuts lines and health alert extended “There are abnormal loads and there are abnormal loads –- and this one will completely fill the motorway,” Gordon Beattie, abnormal loads manager for National Highways North West, said. “The module will be mounted on two wheeled platforms — one on each carriageway — and will look a bit like the bridge of a container ship gliding down the motorway. “This has been a huge logistical challenge for everyone involved but we’ll be closing the motorway at a time when traffic is at its lightest and a very good diversion will be in place.” After arriving by ship from Thailand to the Port of Liverpool in June, the module was transferred to a barge for the short trip across the River Mersey, through the locks into the Manchester Ship Canal and onto a holding bay near National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port.
Read more on manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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