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Koroinen transformer station, Turku (Åbo)
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Despite the name, this target is not to be mixed with the Koroinen power station of Turku €nergia. That facility is further in the East, but in the same part of the city anyway. It seems that this transformer has been cold for quite long, but immediate vicinity of houses and a logistics firm has reduced unofficial visits.

 

dm-tku_muuntaja21 Basically it's not more than a transformer booth, but for such it is quite a big one.
dm-tku_muuntaja20 Yard is occupied by pallets and other freighting stuff.
dm-tku_muuntaja05 Access has been arranged via a window. Door is too stuck and rotten to be opened, but I think it's perfectly okay for people who visit places like this.
dm-tku_muuntaja03 Basement contains rotten floors, maintenance related items, and as a bit of a surprise, some items related to diagram drawing work.
dm-tku_muuntaja02 Now this Coke bottle is old. The fact that it was in one piece during the visit can be considered a miracle.
dm-tku_muuntaja04 Bottle of SnO2? It's good opacifier, so most probably this must have something to do with ceramic insulators.
dm-tku_muuntaja19 Reactive power meter in the basement. There are a few meters in the middle of something that otherwise looked like a completely normal wall.
dm-tku_muuntaja18 When has this place been used? 50 years ago??!
dm-tku_muuntaja17 High voltage storeys are behind a grill door.
dm-tku_muuntaja06 Bakelite light switch of hard times. They haven't spent unnecessary raw material for this tiny thing.
dm-tku_muuntaja08 The first floor has held transformers. They are just all missing.
dm-tku_muuntaja09 What remains on the first floor, is the extra cool spiral staircase. It's iron and produced in Högfors, which tells how old it must be.
dm-tku_muuntaja10 Some neighborhood sniper has trained here, or any other ideas?
dm-tku_muuntaja07 Ehh.... What the heck!! Weird cyberpunk humour.
dm-tku_muuntaja16 Second floor contains conventional marble panels. Too bad they are almost totally stripped.
dm-tku_muuntaja13 Oil switch alley is pretty emptied also.
dm-tku_muuntaja15 Lots of useless insulators here.
dm-tku_muuntaja11 Arsenal of fuse holders.
dm-tku_muuntaja12 Huh, quite a cable. Strangely this is about the only cable left in the building.
dm-tku_muuntaja14 One transformer text.
dm-tku_muuntaja01 Someone has painted local celeb, Mr. Numminen, on a wall near the transformer booth. Some people do have too much time.

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SITES WITH NOTEWORTHY CONTENT CONCERNING KOROINEN:

  1. Infiltraatio (Turun Kaupunkieksploraatio)