General view from SW. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.
SC 875571
Description General view from SW. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.
Date 26/8/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 875571
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Carsfad hydro-electric power station, Carsfad, 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 Carsfad Power Station, the second highest station in the scheme. It has two generating sets, each powered by a Francis turbine. It draws its water from a nearby dam. It was the last station in the scheme to be commissioned, in October 1936. The Galloway scheme still operates under the ownership of Scottish Power plc.. All the stations are now controlled from the Tongland station. The design of the power stations contrasts with those built by the Grampian Electricity Supply Company only a few years earlier. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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