View from ESE showing SSEB diesel shunter with SSEB Clydesmill number 3 in background

Description View from ESE showing SSEB diesel shunter with SSEB Clydesmill number 3 in background

Date 1969

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

Catalogue Number SC 713090

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 the elevated railway through the station, with two of the shunting locomotives used in the works. The diesel-electric locomotive had been transferred from Kincardine Power Station in 1968, and the steam locomotive had been at Clyde's Mill since it was built in 1927. 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 H35/69/58/16

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