Exolum Pipeline System

GPSS marker plate, near Heydon, Cambridgeshire. The marker text: S/SW shows marker is on the Sandy-Saffron Walden link; 24 kilometres (15 mi) is the distance from Sandy; up-arrow indicates that the normal flow is away from the observer looking at the notice
GPSS pre-World War II white marker, with post-World War II yellow/black post
The GPSS crosses the non-navigable Stroudwater Canal, near Whitminster, Gloucestershire but will be re-routed as part of the restoration of the canal.
The tanker TORM VITA discharges aviation fuel at Berth 7, Royal Portbury Dock near Bristol. Known as the 'Bristol Aviation Fuel Terminal', it was managed by the Oil and Pipelines Agency, with its intake distributed by the GPSS.
The former Berwick Wood Petroleum Supply Depot (PSD), located in Berwick, Gloucestershire, was one of the original additional storage facilities built to connect to the GPSS.
The railway-connected Misterton & Rawcliffe PSDs located in Misterton, Nottinghamshire, which is also connected to the GPSS
The former Stonesby PSD located in Leicestershire, now the site of an NTL transmission site and aerial

The Exolum Pipeline System, formerly the CLH Pipeline System and the Government Pipelines and Storage System (GPSS), is a fuel pipeline system in the United Kingdom.[1] Originally constructed by the government to supply fuel to airfields in World War II, it is now owned by Exolum.

The system once consisted of over 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) of pipeline and more than 46 facilities. In 1989 there were 40 petroleum storage depots in operation plus large numbers of other facilities such as pump-stations, junctions, and ingress and egress points, although many of these have now been closed.[2] It is interconnected with other commercial pipeline systems.

  1. ^ "The UK's network of secret fuel pipes that helped win WWII". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  2. ^ Whittle, 2017. [page needed]