General view Digital image of A 55732.

Description General view Digital image of A 55732.

Date 1988

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number SC 728432

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of A 55732

Scope and Content Aerial view of Kincardine Power Station, Kincardine-on-Forth, Fife Kincardine Power Station, a 760,000 kilowatt steam turbine generating station, was commissioned in 1954 by the South of Scotland Electricity Board. It was designed 1954-8 and built 1958-60, and features architectural design work by Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall & Partners. The building was demolished in 2000. This shows, in the foreground, the pit-head buildings and conveyors which transported coal to the large main building, faced with aluminium cladding and coloured brick. Coal also arrived by rail, on a ring of tracks around the site. The coal was crushed, and then burnt in a combustion chamber containing water filled pipes. This produced steam to drive turbines which turned generators creating electricity. The power then passed to the switch gear seen in the centre of the image, where it was transformed before being distributed to homes via the National Grid. Waste gases were released by the two chimneys, and ash sludge sent to the Longannet disposal site. Water from the River Forth (bottom right) was used for cooling the steam. This building has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/728432

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap