Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 166,992 pages of information and 246,684 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Carrington Power Station

From Graces Guide
1956.

Located near Carrington in Cheshire, at the confluence of the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal.

1928 Selected as one of 2 new stations to be built under the North-West England and North Wales Electricity Scheme

1947 The Manchester Corporation Electricity Department began planning the station.

1948 The British Electricity Authority continued the development of the site following the nationalisation of the industry.

1953 The first generating set of the coal-fired station was commissioned

1956 The full capacity of 240 MW was available when the station was formally opened.

Turbine-Alternators by Metropolitan-Vickers. Boilers by Babcock and Wilcox and John Brown Land Boilers. See station handbook here[1] for a complete list of contractors and sub-contractors.

1990 Acquired by PowerGen

1991 Coal-fired station was closed.

2009 Construction of a gas-fired combined cycle plant began on the site

2016 The new gas-fired station came into use.


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Wayback Machine - CEA Carrington Power Station booklet
  • [2] Wikipedia
  • Power stations in Greater Manchester [3]