View from WSW showing shunting hopper wagons at Clydesmill Power Station

Description View from WSW showing shunting hopper wagons at Clydesmill Power Station

Date 1969

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 713040

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Clydesmill (Clyde's Mill) Power Station, Glasgow (Cambuslang), South Lanarkshire This power station was established in about 1903 by the Clyde Valley Electrical Power Co, one of the area electrical supply companies set up in the early 1900s. It was probably expanded to cope with wartime demand. In 1927 it was adopted as a 'selected' station under the Central Scotland Electricity Scheme. This view shows hopper wagons loaded with coal being shunted into position over the points where they could be discharged into storage bunkers from which the boilers could be fed. The diesel locomotive was transferred from Kincardine Power Station in 1968. Clyde's Mill was from 1927 to 1948 run by the Central Electricity Board, and then by the British Electricity Authority until 1954. Thereafter it was operated by the South of Scotland Electricity Board. Apart from a peak-load gas-turbine installation it was closed in the 1970s and dismantled in 1982. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/58/13

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