View of Headworks at Mullardoch Generating Station. Copy of negative, Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric, Box 1048/2, Contract No. 9, Plate No. 281.

Description View of Headworks at Mullardoch Generating Station. Copy of negative, Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric, Box 1048/2, Contract No. 9, Plate No. 281.

Date 7/10/1952

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

Catalogue Number SC 869089

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric Project, contract no 9, Mullardoch Generating Station, headworks, 7 October 1952 The Affric/Beauly scheme utilises the natural power of the Rivers Cannich and Affric, both tributaries of the River Glass. The main construction work centred around the construction of Mullardoch Dam (completed 1952) and the smaller Benevean Dam. To take advantage of the difference in level between these two dams, an underground generating station was built near the south end of Mullardoch dam. Shown is the building of the small Mullardoch Generating Station, with the shaft for a vertical turbine of the Francis type, which will drive a 2.4 megawatt horizontal induction generator. The waste water from the turbine discharges into the tunnel leading to Loch Benevean. The power station produces eight million units of electricity annually. The Mullardoch Generating Station is a component of the Mullardoch-Fasnakyle-Affric Project which was the first part of the Affric/Beauly scheme to be built by the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. The Affric/Beauly scheme is one of eight large schemes built by the Board from the 1940s to the 1960s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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