Britain’s Underground Fuel Network - World Beneath Your Feet - BBC

[@bmwnasher]

Having worked for a Petroleum Co, it's quite interesting how many pipelines there are, and how they transport multiple fuel products through them.

[@Beatlefan67]

John Penny 4 years ago It's so important, the Government sold it to the Spanish, deal done on the last budget day so few people would notice. God help us. Is there anything of ours left? See 'Private Eye' for the facts.

[@BLX187]

Yes. Very strange.

[@1960dave1960]

One of these pipelines ran through the village that I grew up in, in Surrey, everyone knew about this in the 1970s…..🥸

[@peterhearle874]

Going back 50 years, I worked on the pipeline in Avonmouth a pipeline could be picked up from the seabed in Redcliffe Bay pump to Shore into storage tanks. It was then pumped across country and through Tickenham Hill. I will come out the ground near Blackwell. There is a rail siding there it would be pumped into rail tanks and distributed around the countryside. There is a tunnel going through that hill in Eastern Gordalno just tall enough for a man to go through and under the motorway One of my jobs was to clean out the valve pits on the way they were in the middle of the fields There were four big boys in the sea, where a ship would park in the middle and pick up the pipeline From the seabed There was a Royal Navy sea yard in Yate. It’s now a testing centre for cars and lorries. Who we were for was the pipeline agency. I worked on depots in Swindon and the underground one near Gloucester. I did a lot of tank cleaning for the government storage agencies.

[@flybobbie1449]

Some pipe lines show up when it snows lightly. The ground is slightly warmer at the pipes.

[@raypitts4880]

air craft use tons of fuel judge how many tankers dont turn up at heathrow every day. the pipe line is marked like safe places for huntsman to clear fences thats what country people know of.

[@012antrode]

Always remember to remove cat before flight

[@lesdixlaiques6805]

Hello BBC

[@Skval2254]

How is the condition of these pipelines? Large parts of the system are still from the first period. Is it a ticking Time bomb for environmental damage

[@UnipornFrumm]

Well pipes are more efficient then truks

[@OggyGTA]

Now sold to a spanish company.

[@mariolabriola1037]

How does the fuel move when it’s in the pipeline? What pushes it?

[@zGJungle]

Pumps would be the obvious answer.

[@peterbustin2683]

2:28 Heathrow "...1200 flights a day" Not any more !!!

[@robertthistlewood5892]

Good old bbc now every one knows. Really makes me wonder..

[@richgilmour5924]

Remember when they gave the argies crucial information during the Falklands war ,smh.

[@oliveringram3056]

I've got an idea. Let's show potential terrorist groups maps of our underground fuel pipelines, tell them all about it.....?

[@pikminlord343]

smart

[@elevengiant]

new bombing targets

[@Vryx43]

not to mention the planes paint job

[@Skval2254]

Nordstream is never far away

[@637122a]

No need for Smiley's people here

[@LawrenceBishton]

Ipep lines you mean

[@raychoy6981]

Nice series

[@newtonwhatevs]

Too dramatised. But interesting.

[@MegaBoilermaker]

this also misses out PLYMOUTH and FALMOUTH .

[@SuperPissballs]

Good job we aren’t at war.