General view from E. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.

Description General view from E. Copy of 35 mm colour transparency.

Date 4/9/1975

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 875576

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Glenlochar Barrage, Glenlochar, Kirkcudbrightshire The Galloway hydro-electric scheme uses the water of the rivers Doon and Dee to drive five power stations, the lowest of which is at Tongland, near Kirkcudbright. The scheme was approved by Parliament in 1929 and built by the Galloway Water Power Company. It was designed from the first to deliver power through the National Grid. This view shows the barrage across the river Dee at the south end of Loch Ken, built to raise the level of the loch slightly so that it could act as a reservoir for the lowest power station on the scheme, at Tongland. This part of the scheme was commissioned in 1935. The Galloway scheme is still in full operation, in the ownership of Scottish Power plc.. The water from Loch Ken flows down the Dee to a dam at Tongland, which supplies the power station there. All the stations are now controlled from the Tongland station, the lowest and largest on the scheme. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference 358

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