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Yorkshire Electric Power Co

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1925. BTH. Thornhill Power Station.
1932. The Thornhill Power Station.
Porcelain plaque with YEP logo from a primary substation outside Wakefield. The logos appeared on all YEP substations but were defaced or removed after nationalization.
Map showing the Yorkshire Electric Power Co area in 1946.
Map close-up detail.
1992. Structure supporting the Ferrybridge-Beal-Snaith 33kv overhead line.[1]
1992. Structure supporting the Ferrybridge-Beal-Snaith 33kv overhead line.[2]
1992. Structure supporting a lower voltage overhead line associated with Ferrybridge-Beal-Snaith line.[3]
1992. Structure supporting a lower voltage overhead line associated with Ferrybridge-Beal-Snaith line.[4]

of Wellington Road, Dewsbury.

1901 The company was incorporated on the 26 July, under the Yorkshire Electric Power Act, to construct electrical generating stations for providing a supply of electrical energy throughout the greater part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. [5]

1902 Thornhill Power Station commissioned

1913 Barugh (pronounced Bark) power station, near Barnsley, commissioned.[6]

1926 Construction of Ferrybridge Power Station began

1927 Ferrybridge power station was commissioned[7]

1927 Transmission Lines and Cables Construction Co., Keighley, received the contract from Yorkshire Electric Power Co to build the Ferrybridge-Beal-Snaith 33kv overhead line. The masts and towers were a combination of 'H' girder steel masts, lattice steel masts, lattice steel angle masts and lattice steel angle towers. They were designed and supplied by W. T. Henley (Henley Overhead Transmission).[8]

1932 Completion of the construction of the National Grid in the Mid-East England area; 16 power stations were interconnected using 322 miles of 132kV transmission lines, including new stations at Kirkstall and Ferrybridge; a secondary system was established in South Lincolnshire and Rutland in order to open up agricultural districts using 202 miles of 33kV lines[9]

1932 Registered the North Lincolnshire and Howdenshire Electricity Co as a subsidiary in order to supply electricity in an area adjacent to the existing service area[10]

1948 Nationalised[11]

Subsequently:

1963 Barugh Power Station was decommissioned

1976 Ferrybridge A Power Station closed

1981 Mexborough Power Station was decommissioned

1982 The Thornhill Power Station was decommissioned and was subsequently demolished.

1998 A gas turbine power station was commissioned on the Thornhill site.


See Also

Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Robin Longbottom
  2. ↑ Robin Longbottom
  3. ↑ Robin Longbottom
  4. ↑ Robin Longbottom
  5. ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  6. ↑ Robin Longbottom
  7. ↑ The Times Feb 16, 1937
  8. ↑ Robin Longbottom
  9. ↑ The Times Nov 23, 1932
  10. ↑ The Times Feb 22, 1933
  11. ↑ The Times, 10 March 1948
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