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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 683816
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/683816
NX68NW 26.00 60562 85440
NX68NW 26.01 centred NX 60544 85404 transformer station
For Carsfad Loch, Dam (NX 60656 85669), see NX68NW 25.00.
For Carsfad Dam, Aqueduct (NX 60506 85485 to NX 60555 85431), see NX68NW 25.02.
For Carsfad Loch (centred NX 607 860), see NX68NW 104.
Carsfad Power Station [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1981.
Carsfad Power Station
Catchment area: 171 sq mi (443 sq km)
Average net head: 65 ft (19.8m)
Water consumption on full load at average head: 2600 cusec
Number and size of units: 2x6000kW
Gross volume of turbine room (incl. loading bay), above main floor level - total: 196,000 cu ft (5550.2 cu m)
Gross volume of turbine room (incl. loading bay), above main floor level - per kW: 16.3 cu ft (0.46 cu m)
Range of net heads: 64-66ft (19.5-20.1m)
No. of rating of generator sets installed: 2x6,000 kW
Turbine output: 8,500 hp
Specific speed: 104 rpm
Normal speed: 214.3 rpm
Runaway speed: 450 rpm
Water consumption per turbine on full load at average head: 1300 cusecs
Diameter of runner: 9ft 2ins (2.8m)
This small and remote power station is intended for unattended operation.
Anon. 1938 ['Galloway Hydro-Electric Development'].
(Detailed description of power generation equipment and switchgear).
English Electric Company Limited [post-1936].
This power station receives water from Carsfad Loch (NX68NW 104), and is a major component of Stage II of the Galloway Hydro-Electric Scheme. Thec equipment installed is identical with that at Earlstoun Power Station (NX68SW 147).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 October 2005.
Gibb and Partners et al. 1937.
