Interior. View at foot of Intake Gateshaft during construction work. Copy of negative, Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric, Box 873/1, Contract No. 9, Plate No. 155.

Description Interior. View at foot of Intake Gateshaft during construction work. Copy of negative, Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric, Box 873/1, Contract No. 9, Plate No. 155.

Date 31/7/1950

Collection Records of the North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board (1943-90), Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 869051

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric Project, contract no 9, Mullardoch Tunnel, view at foot of intake gateshaft, 31 July 1950 The area around Loch Mullardoch is very remote and isolated. The construction of Mullardoch Dam (completed 1952) could not begin until the road along Glen Cannich had been entirely rebuilt. Other building works included a tunnel to divert water to Loch Benevean, a small dam on Loch Benevean, and another tunnel to the hydro-electric power station at Fasnakyle. This is the tunnel to the Mullardoch Power Station from the bottom of the vertical intake shaft, looking towards Loch Benevean. The railway was used for removing spoil from the tunnel, and the large-diameter pipe on the left supplied air for ventilation of the working face of the tunnel. Mullardoch Power Station was built as component of the Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric Project which was the first part of the Affric/Beauly scheme to be built. The Affric/Beauly scheme is one of eight large schemes built by the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board from the 1940s to the 1960s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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