Bromborough Power Station
From Graces Guide
A 210 MW coal-fired station, later converted to burn oil.
1938 A smaller station was originally planned by Birkenhead Corporation
1948 Construction started on a site adjacent to the River Mersey for the British Electricity Authority, it had 8 Babcock and Wilcox coal-fired boilers and 4 English Electric 52.5 MW turbo-alternators, with hydrogen cooled alternators generating electricity at 11 kV.
1951 The first machine was commissioned; further sets were commissioned at intervals up to December 1952.
Soon after commissioning the boilers were converted to oil-firing in accordance with government policy to take advantage of differential prices between coal and oil.
1980 Bromborough power station was closed and demolished in 1986.
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