Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 564783
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Hydro Electricity Power Station, completed 1929. A remarkable piece of engineering still operating with its original machinery. It is served by a 15 mile/15 ft diameter tunnel (the longest of its kind in the world when constructed by the Grampian Electricity Co), which brings water from Lochs Treig and Laggan, driving it through part of Ben Nevis en route. Aluminium Smelter, 1929, at the base of Fort William's vast 'drain pipes', is well served by the West Highland Railway.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
