River Westbourne/Ranelagh Relief/CSO aka 'The Egg'

Ojay/MJS/Leaf...

Dropping into a lid somewhere North of Hyde Park we followed the Ranelagh storm relief through a small brick tunnel downstream until it reached the first relief chamber (the 3 connections seen in the pic below).

In the picture below I'm stood in the main Ranelagh sewer, with the Serpentine connection on the left and the storm relief to my right.

(Pict0r by MJS)

We headed downstream following the sewer through the modest 8ft yellow & red brick pipe, careful not to slip into the fresh.

Eventually we reached the main overflow chamber known as 'The Egg'.

Here the sewer runs down a smaller channel above the top of the overflow, and heads towards the Thames

Beyond the weir boards and the girders are a set of ladders down to the lower overflow

Here 'The Egg'

This junction is huge, and to be finally stood within it was amazing, it was far bigger than I had imagined it!

The 2 slots above are overflow weirs for the Ranelagh sewer that runs above as seen earlier

The smaller RBP, which quickly leads to a smaller egg shaped section is the KSP CSO (See below)

Ahead the larger egg (part of the KSP storm relief).

I only followed this for a few hundred yards before turning back, as we had rather a lot to cram in

A quick lick of the fresh, Gangsta lean Stylee

(Pict0r c/o Leaf)

We then made our way back to the main Ranelagh sewer and exited via the nearest manhole

Back above ground, we hit the tube and onto our next destination

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