Trimingham RRH
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Trimingham RRH
Dismantling of the Golfball and facility, due to fears of erosion, and also wee bit of interference from Windfarms.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/2344745...PPQWE-_RrCeiI0
Site be relocated back on site at main base down the road at RAF Neatishead.
cheers
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/2344745...PPQWE-_RrCeiI0
Site be relocated back on site at main base down the road at RAF Neatishead.
cheers
A replacement was finished at RRH(RAF) Neatishead late last year.
https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/n...-dome-revealed
So the type 84 won't be coming back .
Civilian Buyer of RAF Neatishead Wants To Get Type 84 Radar Working
P.S. Onlyone two emms in Trimingham.
https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/n...-dome-revealed
So the type 84 won't be coming back .
Civilian Buyer of RAF Neatishead Wants To Get Type 84 Radar Working
P.S. Only
Last edited by SLXOwft; 12th Apr 2023 at 15:44. Reason: accuracy
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Used to be a fully 24 hour manned MRS/GCI station like Neatishead, Wartling and Bawdsey? Even given their proximity to the capital, I could never understand in the age of the T80 etc, why they needed three such stations all inside East Angular?
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Wartling was in Sussex not East Angular; it was sited on the Pevensey Levels but rapidly became flooded so was then moved to Sopley.
I believe the T80 was moved to Wartling (then later to Sopley) from Beachy Head possibly due to the radiation hazard (2,500 mw) at Beachy Head which was becoming a popular spot for sightseeing. The usual GCI station 'guardroom' was still at Beachy Head a few years ago although I'm told it had been filled in with rubble.
There was another radar unit in East Angular but in spite of my researches I cannot seem to find any information about it. I saw it in about 1966 (during a school coach trip to Bradwell Bay nuclear power station) near a village called South Woodham Ferrers; it was on a small hill just outside the town. I think it may have used the callsign 'Tango Radar' but what it did (GCI or ATC) I don't know.
Last edited by chevvron; 13th Apr 2023 at 13:30.