Croydon Power Station
From Graces Guide
1896 Station built by Croydon Corporation near Croydon Gas Works.
c.1897 Charles Merz was appointed manager and engineer to operate the plant which BTH had supplied at Croydon. So successful was he in this task that he was given charge of a similar and larger contract at Cork, which also included tramways.
1924 Generating equipment replaced giving the station a capacity of 50 MW.
1950 Croydon 'B' power station was constructed. The first of the two Metropolitan-Vickers 52·5 MW turbo-alternators was installed together with first of four 320,000 lb per hour p.f. fired Simon-Carves boilers[1].
1973 Station closed
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1949/01/14 p.43