Elland Power Station
| Elland Power Station | |
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 Elland Power Station |
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| Country | England |
| Location | West Yorkshire |
| Coordinates | 53°41′40″N 1°49′22″W / 53.694312°N 1.822772°WCoordinates: 53°41′40″N 1°49′22″W / 53.694312°N 1.822772°W |
| Commission date | 1959 |
| Decommission date | 1991 |
| Operator(s) | Central Electricity Generating Board |
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| Primary fuel | Coal-fired |
| grid reference SE118220 | |
Elland Power Station was a coal-fired power station situated on a loop of the River Calder, north east of the town of Elland in West Yorkshire.
[edit] History
The construction of Elland Power Station was planned in 1945. Building work began in 1951. The first generating unit began generating electricity on 7 August 1959, but didn't officially open and begin generating at full capacity until 28 April 1961.[1] The station used three 60 megawatt (MW) generating sets.[2] Later in the 1960s, the station won an award for it clean and efficient operation.
Coal was delivered by train on the adjacent Calder Valley Line and moved around the site using 0-4-0 shunters. Elland No. 1, a CEGB 0-4-0 diesel shunter is preserved at Mangapps Railway Museum, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex.[3]
On 22 November 1971, the station's conveyor belt was destroyed in a fire.[1] After the UK's electric supply industry was privatised in 1989, the station was operated by PowerGen.[4] The station closed in 1991 before being demolished in 1996. The station's site is now the site of Lowfields Industrial Estate.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Bull, Malcolm (2008). "Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion" (HTML). http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~calderdalecompanion/e.html. Retrieved 2008-12-11.
- ^ "REFERENCE INSTALLATION LIST" (PDF). http://www.cbmh.co.uk/. March 2008. pp. 29. http://www.cbmh.co.uk/_upload/CBM_Reference_List___CBM_Master___Web0.pdf. Retrieved 2008-12-11.
- ^ "Mangapps Railway Museum - Stock List". http://www.mangapps.co.uk/stock_list.html. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
- ^ "Table 3.7 - Generation Disconnections since 1991". http://www.nationalgrid.com/. National Grid. 2003. http://www.nationalgrid.com/UK/library/documents/sys_03/dddownloaddisplay.asp?sp=sys_Table3_7. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
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