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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.
==Association with the Severn Valley Railway==[[File:BritainFromAbove StourportPS 1948.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Stourport Power Station from the air in 1948. The exchange sidings are in the top left, with the coal drops in the middle of the image. Note the smoke stacks are painted in camouflage colours. Image from [http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw013590 Britain from Above]]] Coal was initially delivered via the River Severn or the [[Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal]] (which passes under the SVR at [[Falling Sands Viaduct]]). A branch line from [[Stourport | Stourport station]] along the embankment was constructed in 1940 so that coal could be brought in directly by rail. A portion of the coal for Stourport Power Station came from [[Collieries served by the Severn Valley Railway]], with approximately 30% of the output of Alveley Colliery being sent to the power station. The majority of the coal came from Cannock Chase, with such coal arriving at Hartlebury from Stourbridge, often behind a Midland engine. A shunting locomotive was stationed at Hartlebury to shuttle coal wagons between there and Stourbridge. <ref>[[Tales_from_the_Severn_Valley#Coal_for_Stourport_Power_Station | Recollection of former NCB employee]]</ref> A former NCB employee's recollections of coal workings can be found in [[Tales_from_the_Severn_Valley#Coal_for_Stourport_Power_Station|Tales from the Severn Valley]]. ==Locomotives==At least one ex-Stourport power station locomotive has been preserved. Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST works number 2088/1940 "Sir Thomas Royden" was delivered new on 28th May 1940. The locomptive was named after the Chairman of the Edmundsons Electricity Corporation which operated the power station at the time. It remained in service until 1977, and is now preserved at Rocks by Rail, formerly known as the Rutland Railway Museum.<ref>[http://www.rocks-by-rail.org/exhibit/ab-2088-sir-thomas-royden/ Rocks by Rail] (Retrieved 13 June 2016)</ref><gallery>File:Rocks by Rail - train of mineral wagons (geograph 4740737).jpg | Sir Thoas Royden at Rocks by Rail (Wikimedia Commons)</gallery>
Coal continued to be delivered to the power station by rail until 12 January 1981.<ref>[[File:BritainFromAbove StourportPS 1948Bibliography#Books | Vanns]] p.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Stourport Power Station from the air in 194894. </ref> The exchange sidings are power station closed in the top left1984 and has since been demolished, with the coal drops in the middle of the image. Note the smoke stacks are painted in camouflage colours. Image from [http://wwwarea now mainly being a housing estate.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw013590 Britain from Above]]]
== See also ==