Archaeology Notes

Event ID 749106

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX68SW 68.00 60604 80552

NX68SW 68.01 NX 60287 80264 to NX 60599 80543 Penstocks

NX68SW 68.02 NX 60120 80124 Surge tower

NX68SW 68.03 NX 60160 80048 Tip

NX68SW 68.04 Centred NX 60643 80521 Transformer Station

For adjacent (and associated) road bridge, see NX68SW 211.

For associated Clatteringshaws Loch (reservoir) and Dam (NX 5438 7517 to 5467 7550), see NX57NW 41.01.

For associated Glenlee (water supply) tunnel (NX5510 7779 to NX 6028 8026), see NX57NE 37.

For associated Earlstoun power station and dam (NX 6143 8240), see NX68SW 28.

Glenlee Power Station [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1982.

Glenlee Power Station: 1st stage of project

Average net head: 365ft (111m)

Catchment area: 49 sq miles (127 sq km)

Max. load: 24,000 kW [42% of 1st stage total: 24% of grand total]

Units per annum: 40 million [42% of 1st stage total: 22% of grand total]

No. of main turbines: 2

Glenlee power station: contractor, A M Carmichael.

Glenlee tail race: contractor, A M Carmichael.

[Glenlee] power station machinery and switch-gear: English Electric Company Ltd.

[Glenlee] power-house cranes: Clyde Crane and Engineering Company, Ltd.

[Glenlee] valves, gates, sluices etc. Glenfield and Kennedy Ltd.

[Glenlee] valves. Boving and Co Ltd.

[Glenlee] subsidiary valves. Guest and Chrimes Ltd.

Anon. 1934 ['Galloway Water Power Scheme'].

This station served as the control station for the Scheme as a whole.

(Detailed description of power generation equipment and switchgear).

English Electric Company Limited [post-1936].

Glenlee Power Station

Catchment area: 47.5 sq mi (123 sq km)

Average net head: 380 ft (115.9m)

Water consumption on full load at average head: 870 cusec

Number and size of units: 2x6000kW, 2x500kW

Gross volume of turbine room (incl. loading bay), above main floor level - total: 146,000 cu ft (4134.3 cu m)

Gross volume of turbine room (incl. loading bay), above main floor level - per kW: 5.8 cu ft (0.16 cu m)

Range of net heads: 346-415ft (105.5-126.5m)

No. of rating of generator sets installed: 2x12,000 kW

Turbine output: 16,800 hp

Specific speed: 35 rpm

Normal speed: 428.6 rpm

Runaway speed: 813 rpm

Water consumption per turbine on full load at average head: 435 cusecs

Diameter of runner: 5ft (1.52m)

Auxiliary sets: 2x500kW, water consumption 22 cusecs each

This power station is intended for manned operation.

Anon. 1938 ['Galloway Hydro-Electric Development'].

By Merz and McLellan, and Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners. This building was constructed in 1936 as part of the Galloway Hydro-electric Scheme.

J R Hume 2000.

This power station forms a major element of stage I of the Galloway Hydro-Electric Scheme, receiving its water supply from Clatteringshaws Loch (NX57NW 41.00) through the Glenlee tunnel (NX57NE 37).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 October 2005.