View from NNW showing main building. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.
SC 867670
Description View from NNW showing main building. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.
Date 28/8/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 867670
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Tongland hydro-electric power station, Tongland, Kirkcudbrightshire The Galloway hydro-electric scheme was approved by Parliament in 1929, and built by the Galloway Water Power Company. It used the water of the rivers Doon and Dee to drive five power stations, the lowest at Tongland, near Kirkcudbright. It was designed from the first to deliver power through the National Grid. This view shows the Tongland Power Station, the lowest and largest station in the scheme. It opened in 1935, and has three generating sets, each powered by a Francis turbine. The modern styling of the building is striking, and reflects the status of the Galloway project as the largest of its kind in Britain at the time. The Galloway scheme is still in full operation, in the ownership of Scottish Power plc.. It is now controlled from the Tongland station. The design of the power stations is a striking contrast to that of the stations of the Grampian Electricity Supply Company of only a few years earlier. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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