Police are escorting a wide load across Norfolk as it travels from Great Yarmouth docks to Bacton Gas Terminal.
The convoy - consisting of officers, power network staff and three trucks laden with bulky cargo - set off from Yarmouth docks at 9.30am today and turned heads as it travelled past the Town Hall on Hall Quay before heading along the A47 and A1064, A149 and onto Bacton in north Norfolk.
Bacton's gas plant, near North Walsham, was opened in 1968. Today, it is made up of five terminals taking gas from a fields across the Southern North Sea.
Last year, terminal operators and North Norfolk District Council began discussions into how to protect the plant from coastal erosion began.
In light of the December 2013 tidal surge, North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb held a meeting at parliament between energy secretary Ed Davey, coastal minister Dan Rogerson and senior figures from the Environment Agency, the district council and gas terminal operators.
It was agreed the best way to protect the Bacton terminal was to link it to wider coastal erosion work so communities were not put at risk.
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