Aerial view. Digitlaimage of B 43281.

Description Aerial view. Digitlaimage of B 43281.

Date 1990

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number SC 728439

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 43281

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 the main blocks which contained the combustion chambers where coal was burnt to heat water, creating steam to turn turbines and generators. The resulting power was transformed for use on the National Grid in the switch area (middle left). Conveyors (top) from the pit-head and railways delivered the coal to the power station. The two chimneys expelled waste gases, while water from the River Forth (bottom left) was used to cool the steam. Waste ash was transported as sludge to settling ponds at the Longannet disposal site. This building has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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