View of Subsidiary Generating Station, showing Head of Shaft and 48 ins. dia. Calyx Drill Outfit. Copy of negative, Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric, Box 869/2, Contract No. 9, Plate No. 189.

Description View of Subsidiary Generating Station, showing Head of Shaft and 48 ins. dia. Calyx Drill Outfit. Copy of negative, Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric, Box 869/2, Contract No. 9, Plate No. 189.

Date 2/4/1951

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

Catalogue Number SC 869066

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric Project, contract no 9, subsidiary generating station, head of shaft and 48 inch diameter Calyx Drill Outfit, 2 April 1951 The small generating station close by the Mullardoch Dam has a capacity of 2.4 megawatts, and can produce eight million units of power per year. This is in stark contrast to the power station at Fasnakyle, part of the same scheme, which uses power from the same flowing waters. This has an installed capacity of 66 megawatts and produces 223 million units of power annually. This view shows the top of the shaft being sunk for the outlet for waste water from the small Mullardoch generating station. The apparatus seen here could bore a hole 24 inches in diameter through the kind of rock seen in the background, a much less laborious method of making a shaft than by blasting. The Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric Project was the first part of the Affric/Beauly scheme to be built. Great care was taken in its design and construction to minimise the impact on the fine scenery in the area. 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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