[[File:StourportPowerStationShunters.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Two CEGB steam locomotives at the power station circa 1968. The small shed can just be seen behind the second engine.]]
Stourport Power Station was built by the Shropshire & Worcestershire Electric Power Co., and opened in June 1927 by the Prime Minister, and MP for Bewdley, Stanley Baldwin. Unusually the power station did not have the customary cooling towers, drawing cooling water directly from the adjacent River Severn and River Stour.