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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.
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.<br>
