Interior. View at working face during construction of tunnel for acqueduct. Scanned image of Plate 36, Volume 198, PA 123.
SC 877761
Description Interior. View at working face during construction of tunnel for acqueduct. Scanned image of Plate 36, Volume 198, PA 123.
Date 16/8/1926
Catalogue Number SC 877761
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of E 33817
Scope and Content Bonnington Power Station, Falls of Clyde Hydro-Electric Scheme, Bonnington Tunnel, view at working face Bonnington Power station was built in 1926, and, along with Stonebyres Power Station, celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2003. The scheme was given a £1.43 million overhaul in the same year and continues to operate, using tunnels to divert the flow of water from the Cora Linn and Bonnington Linn waterfalls to the hydro-electric turbines. The working face of the tunnel from the weir to the power station is shown here. This section of the tunnel is being driven through soft ground, and the man in the centre is inserting timbering to support the side of the tunnel, before cast iron segments, like those on the right, are inserted to line it. There were two power stations in the Falls of Clyde scheme, this larger one at Bonnington, above Lanark, and a smaller one at Stonebyres, below that town. Both are still in use, though the equipment in them has been replaced. Later schemes in the Highlands and in Galloway were modelled on this one. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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