Pumpfields Power Station
1899 Power station constructed on Vauxhall Road, Liverpool, near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Similar in design to that at Lister Drive.
Equipped with 12 Willans vertical type engines running at 230 revolutions per minute, and giving a continuous output of 1,200 i.h.p. but capable of developing a maximum of 1,500 i.h.p. for short periods. Siemens multipolar dynamos, mounted on a bed-plate rigidly connected to the engine bed-plate of 700kW each[1]. The machines are shunt wound and self-excited, and give an output of 1,420 amperes at 550 volts. On either side of the engine-room is a boiler-house of the same length as the engine-room, 51 feet wide. Each contained 14 Lancashire boilers, fitted with mechanical stokers and superheaters.
By 1911 the Pumpfields and Lister Drive stations were carrying the full load of the City; the other stations had been shut down.
By 1913 Three rotary converters had been installed to allow the generating plant to be shut down at times of low load. These 1.5MW unit was supplied from the station at Lister Drive.
1913 The supply from Pumpfields came only from the rotary converters; no steam plant was being used at the station.
By 1919 all of the older and smaller stations in Liverpool had been closed and investment was concentrated in enlarging Lister Drive.
Also see Liverpool Corporation Electric Supply Department
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Sources of Information
- [2] Manweb remembered