Lancaster Power Station
1894 Lancaster Corporation built a power station with capacity of 240 kW. The generating equipment comprised steam driven Willans engines coupled directly to Brush direct current dynamos. Supply commenced on 14 April.
1903 The station started to supply electricity to the Lancaster tram system
WWI A National Projectile Factory was established off Caton Road, adjacent to the River Lune and the Lune Aqueduct, including an electricity generating station.
1922 The munitions factory closed; Lancaster Corporation purchased the power station to increase electricity supplies to Lancaster. The station had a total generating capacity of 1,550 kW. The station supplied only direct current at 460 and 230 Volts.
1926 The Central Electricity Board identified Lancaster as one of its high efficiency "selected" power stations.
1928 Selected under the North-West England and North Wales Electricity Scheme. Lancaster became a node on the major North–South National Grid line from Kilmarnock to Carlisle, Lancaster, Stoke-on-Trent, Bristol and Hayle in Cornwall. The connection in Lancaster was at a 132 kV grid substation that was built south east of the Caton Road power station.
1942 A high pressure station was commissioned at Lancaster power station, consisting of 2 coal-fired Stirling boilers operating at a steam pressure of 430 psi and 830 °F coupled to two 20.8 MW Metropolitan Vickers turbo-alternators operating at 6.6 kV.
1948 nationalisation of the electricity industry
1976 Lancaster power station closed on 25 October
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Sources of Information
- [1] Wikipedia