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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 606506
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/606506
Within a few minutes walk from the centre of Pitlochry are the dam and integral generating station. The dam is 54 ft high and the station was designed principally to benefit the lower reaches of the Tummel by evening out the flow of water reaching Clunie power station (NN86SE ).
There are two automatic spillway drum gates at the dam each having a span of 90 ft. These and the fish ladder, 900 ft long with underwater observation chambers from which the fish can be viewed, have attracted much tourist interest. The generating machinery consists of two 7.5MW turbo alternators.
The construction of the Pitlochry dam, completed in 1950, led to the creation of Loch Faskally and the development of sailing, fishing and various forms of water sports making Pitlochry a major tourist centre attracting about 100 000 visitors each year. In the late 1940s and 1950s, when the works were being planned and constructed, Hydro Board staff and their consultant engineers were often ostracised and refused accommodation such was the fear that the works would blight the scenery and drive away visitors.
R Paxton and J Shipway
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
